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Greece and the east: beginnings. Eastern origins ; Greeks going east -- Greeks and Achaemenid Persia. The confrontation ; Greeks in the Persian Empire ; The view from home ; The view from Homeric heritage -- Greeks and Alexander "the Great." The invasion of the Persian Empire ; Into Asia ; The Hellenistic heritage: 3rd to 1st centuries BC -- The new Greek kingdoms in the east. The kingdoms ; Their cities and art ; Their coinage -- Greeks and their arts in Central Asia. Greeks and nomads: Scythians, Sarmatians ; The Yuehzhi and Tillya Tepe ; The farther east -- Greeks and their arts in India. The Mauryans and Buddhism ; The Sunga dynasty ; Taxila and Gandhara ; Greek and/or Roman - a memo ; The "Gandhara style" in sculpture -- Greeks, Romans, Parthians and Sasanians: before Islam -- Epilogue: myth, history and archeology.