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Offline AdamPHayes

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Re: Reading on Bactrian Greeks? Looking for non-fiction or fiction
« Reply #15 on: 22 October 2020, 10:30:36 PM »
   Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars has two illustrations of Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian cavalry (52 and 53) taken from a plate and a coin with body armor, bows, Kontos, and no shield.  ...

Sadly the plate has subsequently been revised to a much later date. (As mentioned by Duncan Head in the new foreword to the most recent print on demand edition.)

Offline Fremitus Borealis

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Re: Reading on Bactrian Greeks? Looking for non-fiction or fiction
« Reply #16 on: 23 October 2020, 01:47:48 AM »
 
Sadly the plate has subsequently been revised to a much later date. (As mentioned by Duncan Head in the new foreword to the most recent print on demand edition.)
:o

Where does one come by said edition?
"Nice try, history; better luck next year."

Offline williamb

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Re: Reading on Bactrian Greeks? Looking for non-fiction or fiction
« Reply #17 on: 23 October 2020, 03:08:49 AM »
Sadly the plate has subsequently been revised to a much later date. (As mentioned by Duncan Head in the new foreword to the most recent print on demand edition.)
Thanks for the update.  I have the original version.  I will check various book dealers for the best price on the new edition.  The equipment of the two images is similar.
« Last Edit: 23 October 2020, 03:10:33 AM by williamb »

Offline SteveBurt

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Re: Reading on Bactrian Greeks? Looking for non-fiction or fiction
« Reply #18 on: 23 October 2020, 09:29:37 AM »
Narain 'The Indo-Greeks' is pretty good.
Available for less than a tenner second hand

Offline AdamPHayes

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Re: Reading on Bactrian Greeks? Looking for non-fiction or fiction
« Reply #19 on: 23 October 2020, 04:41:14 PM »
  :o

Where does one come by said edition?

You can read a lot of the new foreword on Amazon, which is the main new detail in this edition.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Armies-Macedonian-Punic-Wars-Duncan/dp/1326256564


Offline Fremitus Borealis

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Re: Reading on Bactrian Greeks? Looking for non-fiction or fiction
« Reply #20 on: 23 October 2020, 11:27:15 PM »
Thanks for that!

Offline Atheling

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Re: Reading on Bactrian Greeks? Looking for non-fiction or fiction
« Reply #21 on: 28 October 2020, 08:23:49 AM »
Steven Pressfield

As in The War of Art, Steven Pressfield:o

That is getting ordered today!  8)

 

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