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    The Indo-Greeks practiced numerous religions during the time they ruled in the northwestern Indian subcontinent from the 2nd century BCE to the beginning...
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    Indo-Greek coins. The Kushan Empire, which succeeded the Indo-Greek Kingdom for nearly the next four hundred years, used the Greek alphabet and Greek...
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    process of reconstructing Proto-Indo-European myth. Despite the popularity of Greek mythology in western culture, Greek mythology is generally seen as...
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    The Indo-Greek Kingdom, also known as the Yavana Kingdom, was a Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan...
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    Indo-Greek art Indo-Greek art is the art of the Indo-Greeks, who reigned from circa 200 BC in areas of Bactria and the Indian subcontinent. Initially...
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    The legacy of the Indo-Greeks starts with the formal end of the Indo-Greek Kingdom from the 1st century, as the Greek communities of central Asia and...
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    religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent. These religions,...
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    Related systems and religions European Congress of Ethnic Religions Feraferia Gaianism Greco-Buddhism Hermeticism Indo-Greek religions Kemetism List of modern...
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    Greco-Buddhism (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
    Greco-Buddhist Art Greco-Buddhist monasticism Indo-Greek Kingdom Manicheanism Milinda Pañha Nāgasena Religions of the Indo-Greeks Silk road transmission of Buddhism...
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    modern sense. Likewise, no Greek writer known to us classifies either the gods or the cult practices into separate 'religions'. Instead, for example, Herodotus...
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    by the original religion of the Indo-Iranians, infused with accretions developed locally. Michael Witzel theorises that these religions might share some...
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  • Canaanite religion, both Indo-European and Semitic religions influenced the ancient Greek religion, and Zoroastrianism was a product of ancient Indo-Iranian...
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    Athena Alkidemos (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
    advancing right, with thunderbolt and shield. Menander I was the first Indo-Greek ruler to introduce the representation of Athena Alkidemos ("Athena, saviour...
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    cultures of Eurasian Steppe. This Indo-Iranian religion borrowed "distinctive religious beliefs and practices" from the non-Indo-Aryan Bactria–Margiana culture...
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  • Grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit, Greek and Latin Languages (1874–77) represented an early attempt to reconstruct the proto-Indo-European language...
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    Sky father (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    from the same Proto-Indo-European deity name as the Greek Zeûs Pater and Roman Jupiter, all of which are reflexes of the same Proto-Indo-European deity's...
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    The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of peoples who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and the derived Indo-European languages, which...
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    Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced [eliniˈka]; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an Indo-European language...
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    Gymnosophists (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
    Gymnosophists (Ancient Greek: γυμνοσοφισταί, gymnosophistaí, i.e. "naked philosophers" or "naked wise men" (from Greek γυμνός gymnós "naked" and σοφία...
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    Kalanos (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
    Caranus (Ancient Greek: Κάρανος). According to the Greek sources, he did not flinch as his body burned. He bade goodbye to some of the Greek soldiers who...
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    Ethnic religions (also "indigenous religions" or "ethnoreligions") are generally defined as religions which are related to a particular ethnic group (ethnoreligious...
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  • their religion is possible to reconstruct from scant Iranian, Babylonian and Greek accounts, similarities with Vedic and other Indo-European religions, and...
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    Hegesias of Cyrene (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
    Hegesias (Greek: Ἡγησίας; fl. 290 BC) of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that eudaimonia (happiness) is impossible to achieve, and that the...
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    of Western Asia. Written evidence of Indo-European appeared during the Bronze Age in the form of Mycenaean Greek and the Anatolian languages of Hittite...
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  • conquering territory from the Indo-Scythians and Indo-Greeks, thus transforming his kingdom into an empire. The domains of the Indo-Parthians were greatly reduced...
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    Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries (Greek: μυστήρια), were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation...
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  • The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown pre-Greek languages (either Pre-Indo-European or other Indo-European languages) spoken...
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    of ancient Greek religion and mythology and later the daimons of Hellenistic religion and philosophy. The word is derived from Proto-Indo-European daimon...
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  • Dandamis (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
    Dandamis (presumably Greek rendering of "Dandi-Svami") was a philosopher, swami and gymnosophist whom Alexander encountered in the woods near Taxila,...
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    Pyrrho (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
    Pyrrho of Elis (/ˈpɪroʊ/; Ancient Greek: Πύρρων ὁ Ἠλεῖος, romanized: Pyrrhо̄n ho Ēleios; c. 360 – c. 270 BC) was a Greek philosopher of Classical antiquity...
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