Echoes of Alexander 2- A Shadow over India

India would be one of the last bastions of the Hellenistic kingdoms, which would survive for forty years after the collapse of Ptolemaic Egypt. However, the shadow Alexander the Great cast over the subcontinent would extend further than mere territory. From religion to cosmology, the influence left by the Yavanas would be profound…

Sources for this episode: 1) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Alexander the Great (online) [Accessed 25/03/2021]. 2) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Bodhisattva (online) [Accessed 25/03/2021]. 3) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Menander I (online) [Accessed 25/03/2021]. 4) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Milinda Panha (online) [Accessed 25/03/2021].

A statue of the Buddha in the fused Greco-Buddhist style, from around the 1st to 2nd centuries CE. Apparently, this style may have been influenced by Greek portrayals of Apollo. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89740. Image cropped from the original.