From Pella to Gandhara: Hybridisation and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Hellenistic East

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Alexander the Great's campaigns in the East brought the Greek and Eastern worlds in closer contact than was possible in previous centuries. While Greeks and non-Greeks had lived alongside each other for centuries before Alexander's conquest of the East, it was during the Hellenistic period that a more direct interaction of cultures occurred. The material evidence from the lands that formed part of Alexander's empire, in combination with contemporary theoretical approaches, can hopefully lead to attempts to answer why specific borrowings occurred as well as how such borrowings are interpreted by contemporary scholars. This volume is a direct result of the broader cross-cultural research interests of the editors. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Grants Acknowledgement TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES PREFACE FOREWORD INTRODUCTION: FROM PELLA TO GANDHĀRA ALCIBIADES, “A CLASSICAL ARCHETYPE FOR ALEXANDER” HYBRIDISATION OF PALATIAL ARCHITECTURE: HELLENISTIC ROYAL PALACES AND GOVERNORS’ SEATS ‘HELLENISING’ THE ‘CYPRIOT GODDESS’: ‘READING’ THE AMATHOUSIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURINES THE RUINS ON MOUNT KARASIS IN CILICIA A HYBRIDIZED APHRODITE: THE ANADYOMENE MOTIF AT TEL KEDESH ‘HYBRID’ ART, HELLENISM AND THE STUDY OF ACCULTURATION IN THE HELLENISTIC EAST: THE CASE OF UMM EL-’AMED IN PHOENICIA CULTURAL INTERACTION AND THE EMERGENCE OF HYBRIDS IN THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF HELLENISTIC MESOPOTAMIA: AN INTERPRETATION OF TERRACOTTA FIGURINES, CERAMIC WARE AND SEAL IMPRESSIONS TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE IN THE IRANIAN WORLD IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD CULTURAL CONVERGENCE IN BACTRIA: THE VOTIVES FROM THE TEMPLE OF THE OXUS AT TAKHT-I SANGIN FROM GANDHĀRAN TRAYS TO GANDHĀRAN BUDDHIST ART: THE PERSISTENCE OF HELLENISTIC MOTIFS FROM THE SECOND CENTURY BC AND BEYOND THE PLACES IN BETWEEN: MODEL AND METAPHOR IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF HELLENISTIC ARACHOSIA CONCLUSION