A History of Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule

by: Boyce, M. Grenet, F. Beck, R.

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A History of Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule
Series:
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 8/3
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Religion, Volume: 8/3
Authors: Mary Boyce and F. Grenet
Contributor: Roger Beck
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.

Preliminary Material
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: i–xix
Under Alexander and the Successors
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 1–22
The Seleucids: a Background Sketch
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 23–34
On the western edge of the iranian plateau: Susa and Elymais
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 35–48
Zoroastrianism and Hellenism: a general survey
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 49–68
In western Iran: Media Atropatene, Greater Media and Persis
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 69–124
In the Indo-Iranian borderlands: Arachosia and Gandhara, with a note on the Kuh-i Khwaja in Drangiana
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 125–151
In eastern Iran : the time of the Greek kingdoms
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 152–193
In western Asia Minor: Lydia with Caria and south-west Phrygia
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 195–253
In central and eastern Asia Minor: Greater Phrygia with Galatia, Cappadocia and Pontus, Cilicia
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 254–308
In Commagene, Syria and Egypt
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 309–360
Zoroastrian contributions to eastern Mediterranean religion and thought in Greco-Roman times
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 361–490
Thus Spake not Zarathuštra: Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha of the Greco-Roman world
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 491–565
Select Bibliography
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 566–572
Index
Authors: Mary Boyce, Frantz Grenet, and Roger Beck
Pages: 573–596

A History of Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule

by: Boyce, M. Grenet, F. Beck, R.

• ISBN-13: 9789004092716 / 978-90-04-09271-6
• ISBN-03: 9004092714 / 90-04-09271-4
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1991

Price: 260,00 EURO

1 copy in stock