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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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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Indo-Greek art Indo-Greek art is the art of the Indo-Greeks, who reigned from circa 200 BCE in areas of Bactria and the Indian subcontinent. Initially...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent. These religions,...
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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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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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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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The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown pre-Greek language or languages (either Pre-Indo-European or other Indo-European languages)...
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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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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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Hegesias of Cyrene (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
Hegesias (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἡγησίας; fl. 290 BC) of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that eudaimonia (happiness) is impossible to achieve, and...
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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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Daimon (redirect from Daimon (Greek Mythology))
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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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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Indo-European studies (German: Indogermanistik) is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages...
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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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Greco-Buddhist monasticism (category Indo-Greek religions and philosophy)
Emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE and subsequently during the reign of the Indo-Greek king Menander (r. 165/155–130 BCE) is described in the Mahavamsa, an important...
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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, [eliniˈka]; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an Indo-European language, constituting...
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proposed deity or dyad of deities suggested to have existed in Proto-Indo-European religion and mythology. First proposed by Georges Dumézil, he considered...
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