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1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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"Compendium of papers from the international conference Anabasi: Sulle orme di Alessandro dalla morte di Dario that was held in Venice on 16th-17th October and 17th-18th November, 2014." |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / P. Biagi and C. Antonetti -- Part I. Babylon, the Upper Satrapies and the Iranian peoples. Kislïmu day 10, year 31, Seleucus and Antiochus the kings: Greek elements in Babylonian sources / P. Corò -- Aspects of Seleucid iconography and kingship / V. Messina -- Alexandre le Grand en Asie Centrale: geographie et strategie de la conquete des Portes Caspiennes à l'Inde / C. Rapin -- Scythians and the eastern limits of the Greek influence: the Pazyryk Culture and its foreign artistic influences / L. Crescioli -- Alexandre le Grand et les Russes: un regard sur le conquérant porté depuis l'Asie Centrale / S. Gorshenina -- Parthia, Bactria and India: the Iranian policies of Alexander of Macedonia (330-323) / M. Olbrycht. Part II. From Paropamisus to the Indus mouth and to the Persian Gulf. Indian Caucasus from Alexander to Eratosthenes / F. Prontera -- Megasthenes thirty years later / A. Zambrini -- Indian ethnography in Alexandrian sources: a missed opportunity? / S. Beggiora -- Uneasy riders: with Alexander and Nearchus from Pattala to Rhambakia / P. Biagi -- From the Indus to the Pasitigris: some remarks on the Periplus of Nearchus in the Arrian's Indiké / V. Bucciantini. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Chapters in English and French. |
| Subject |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Congresses.
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. |
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Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) |
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Campaigns -- India -- Congresses.
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Campaigns -- Asia, Central -- Congresses.
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359-323 B.C. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Antonetti, Claudia, editor.
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Biagi, Paolo, 1948- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anabasi: Sulle orme di Alessandro dalla morte di Dario (Conference) (2014 : Venice, Italy). With Alexander in India and Central Asia. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017 9781785705847 (DLC) 2017002721 (OCoLC)982221786 |
| ISBN |
9781785705854 (electronic book) |
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1785705857 (electronic book) |
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9781785705861 |
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1785705865 |
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9781785705878 |
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1785705873 |
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9781785705847 (paperback) |
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1785705849 (paperback) |
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