UID:
almahu_9949701914402882
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 596 pages)
ISBN:
9789004293915
Series Statement:
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, 48. Bd., 1
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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Preliminary Material /
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Under Alexander and the Successors /
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The Seleucids: a Background Sketch /
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On the western edge of the iranian plateau: Susa and Elymais /
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Zoroastrianism and Hellenism: a general survey /
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In western Iran: Media Atropatene, Greater Media and Persis /
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In the Indo-Iranian borderlands: Arachosia and Gandhara, with a note on the Kuh-i Khwaja in Drangiana /
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In eastern Iran : the time of the Greek kingdoms /
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In western Asia Minor: Lydia with Caria and south-west Phrygia /
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In central and eastern Asia Minor: Greater Phrygia with Galatia, Cappadocia and Pontus, Cilicia /
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In Commagene, Syria and Egypt /
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Zoroastrian contributions to eastern Mediterranean religion and thought in Greco-Roman times /
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Thus Spake not Zarathuštra: Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha of the Greco-Roman world /
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Select Bibliography /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: A History of Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1991, ISBN 9789004092716
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
