Are there or were there any lasting traces of the Hellenistic period east of Antioch?
After all the Seleucids collapsed and Seleucia faded into the desert.
Are there or were there any lasting traces of the Hellenistic period east of Antioch?
After all the Seleucids collapsed and Seleucia faded into the desert.
I will talk about specifics in the morning, when i can think better.
Iconoclasm in Buddism the Greco-Bactrians, and fucking up the status quo in Northern India enough to allow the Mauryans to get as big as they were.
None of those are Hellenization (the spread of greek culture and language).
It's to note I am told sanskrit and the prakrits had some subtile greek influence, some words entered indian languages from it.... A word for swords, by example, and the Yavanas of the ancient texts are the Ionans, I think.
Okay that makes far more sense for examples of Hellenization. Not disagreeing that the Greeks had an impact on India, just that those wherent really hellenization so much as they where effects of Greek invasion.
Okay that makes far more sense for examples of Hellenization. Not disagreeing that the Greeks had an impact on India, just that those wherent really hellenization so much as they where effects of Greek invasion.
Technically, it IS a subtile form of helenization, you could say.
Why else taking GREEK words?