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The Greeks in Asia

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By (author): John Boardman

This book, by Britains most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art, recounts the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through to the rise of Islam. Boardman examines a wealth of art and artifacts as well as literary sources to reveal the remarkable influence of Greek culture upon peoples Anatolians, Levantines, Persians, Asiatics, Indians, Chinese whose settled civilizations were far older, with their own strong traditions in life, government and the arts. The Greeks were not empire-builders. They did not seek to conquer or rule. However, they were highly literate and adept at trade; they spread a monetary economy through Eurasia; their religion was easily adapted to that of others; their art developed a form of narrative that was to be dominant for centuries to come; and their poets and philosophers were widely respected outside their homeland. As Boardman notes, They are an odd phenomenon in world history. Through their travels they came to leave a very distinctive imprint on the lives and arts of many distant peoples, and over centuries, some to the present day'. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1090g
  • Dimensions: 183 x 255mm
  • Publication Date: 25 May 2015
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780500252130

About John Boardman

Sir John Boardman was born in 1927 and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens and he has excavated in Smyrna Crete Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.

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