Indo-Greek Kingdom | Hellenistic Kings and their Contributions The Indo-Greek Kingdom or Greco-Indian Kingdom ruled over the northwest regions of the Indian Subcontinent (mainly modern Afghanistan ...

Introduction. The three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the rise of Augustus in Rome in 31 B.C.E. are collectively known as ...

Many artistic changes took place in the Greek world during the Hellenistic period, defined as the three centuries between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the ...

Hellenistic Culture The influence of Greek language, philosophy and culture on Jews and early Christians. ... supposedly a Jewish king, would have been so willing to turn himself over, ...

Aristotle tutored him. He became king of Macedonia at 20. At 30, his unprecedented military victories made him ruler of an empire stretching from modern-day Greece southward to Egypt and eastward to ...

A century earlier, the Indian king Ashoka had placed a long inscription at the Greek city of Alexandria in Arachosia (modern Kandahar, Afghanistan), proclaiming his Buddhist faith in immaculate ...

A set of silver cups recovered from a buried hoard in Sicily reveals the exquisite elegance with which a western Greek family sat down to dine, while, across half the Mediterranean, a clan of ...

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki. ... It lasted until 31 B.C.E. Hellenistic kings patronized the arts ...