1st Edition
Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East Sources and Contexts
Introduction; 1. Contexts for sources; 2. The Dhamma of Aśoka in the context of Greco-Mauryan contacts; 3. Between Aśoka and Menander: a few notes on the Greco-Bactrian kingdom; 4. Menander and the Indo-Greek kingdom; 5. Gandhāra; 6. Late Greek sources about Buddhism in India; Conclusion; Appendices.
Biography
Olga Kubica is Lecturer of Classics at the University of Wrocław. She has finished her PhD in Ancient History as part of the international PhD project "The Eastern Mediterranean from the 4th C. BC until Late Antiquity" at the University of Wrocław, with internships at the University of Liverpool and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
"Olga Kubica provides a most authoritative survey of the interactions of the Greeks in India with their Buddhist contemporaries. Her work is an invaluable guide to the historical and philological problems and to the scholarly controversies surrounding this period of ferment in the history of ideas." Richard Stoneman, Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Exeter, UK
