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Fascinating video on Bactria-Soghdiana and the northwestern Greco-Indian kingdoms. While it focuses on art and coinage, it is a good summary of the Greco-Bactrian kindom post Alexander. Independent and largely cut off from the west, this kingdom flourished. The cities were all built in the Greek fashion (gymnasia, theatres, etc.) and based in Greek culture. The mosaic work at Ai-Khanoum show that, in essence, artistic development atrophied as contact with the western Greco-Macedonian states dwindled. Something of a "time capsule".

Well worth watching.



https://www.academia.edu/video/jJA0Jk?e ... eo&pls=RVP