| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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Hellenistic culture and society ; 53 |
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The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
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Hellenistic culture and society ; 53
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Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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| Contents |
Introduction : a lost civilization -- The adventure begins : checklist numismatics -- A dangerous game : framework numismatics -- The gold colossus : novelty numismatics -- Telling tales : narrative numismatics -- Wanted, one Greek city : archaeology -- Letters here and there : epigraphy -- A perfect storm : rescue and revisionist numismatics -- A new beginning : cognitive numismatics I -- Coins and the collapse of civilization : cognitive numismatics II -- Conclusion : the lost world of the golden king |
| Summary |
"Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and ... new archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, [the author] sets out to discover the ancient civilization of Bactria ... covers two centuries of Bactria's history, from its colonization by remnants of Alexander the Great's army to the kingdom's collapse following a devastating series of nomadic invasions"--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-328) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Eucratides, the Great, active 170 B.C.-145 B.C.
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Eucratides, the Great, active 170 B.C.-145 B.C. |
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Coins, Greek -- Afghanistan
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Coins, Greek -- Bactria
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Greeks -- Afghanistan -- History -- To 1500
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Antiquities.
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Archäologie
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Civilization.
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Coins, Greek.
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Fornlämningar.
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Gesellschaft
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Greeks.
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Hellenismen.
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Münze
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Mynt -- historia.
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Numismatik
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Afghanistan -- Antiquities.
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Afghanistan -- Civilization
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Bactria -- Antiquities
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Bactria -- Civilization
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Afghanistan.
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Asia -- Bactria.
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Hellenobaktrisches Reich
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0520953746 |
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9780520953741 |
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