Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 596 pages)
ISBN:
9789004293915
Series Statement:
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung 48. Bd., 1
Content:
Preliminary Material /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- Under Alexander and the Successors /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- The Seleucids: a Background Sketch /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- On the western edge of the iranian plateau: Susa and Elymais /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- Zoroastrianism and Hellenism: a general survey /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- In western Iran: Media Atropatene, Greater Media and Persis /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- In the Indo-Iranian borderlands: Arachosia and Gandhara, with a note on the Kuh-i Khwaja in Drangiana /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- In eastern Iran : the time of the Greek kingdoms /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- In western Asia Minor: Lydia with Caria and south-west Phrygia /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- In central and eastern Asia Minor: Greater Phrygia with Galatia, Cappadocia and Pontus, Cilicia /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- In Commagene, Syria and Egypt /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- Zoroastrian contributions to eastern Mediterranean religion and thought in Greco-Roman times /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- Thus Spake not Zarathuštra: Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha of the Greco-Roman world /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- Select Bibliography /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck -- Index /Mary Boyce , Frantz Grenet and Roger Beck.
Content:
This volume traces the history of Zoroastrianism at times and places where its existence has previously been largely ignored, or treated only episodically. Literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence has been drawn on (some of it only recently brought to light), and local developments are distinguished. In Iran itself some 200 years of Macedonian rule had little effect on the national religion. To the east, Zoroastrianism survived in the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms and under Mauryan suzereinty, where it came into contact with Buddhism. In Eastern Mediterranean lands it was maintained by Iranian expatriates well down into Roman imperial times. They adopted Greek for their written tongue, and Zoroastrian doctrines thus became known in the Greco-Roman world. Study is made accordingly of Zoroastrian contributions to Hellenistic thought, and to Judaism, Christianity and Mithraism; and an excursus provides a thorough reassessment of the Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha
Note:
Vol. 3 written by Mary Boyce and Frantz Grenet, with a conritution by Roger Beck
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004092716
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A History of Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1991 ISBN 9789004092716
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004293915
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