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How Did Greek Culture Survive at the Edge of the Ancient World? - Cultural Adaptation in the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | Sleepy Facts About History
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When we imagine ancient Greek cities built far from the Mediterranean, it is easy to picture isolated colonists clinging to a pure classical culture on a remote frontier. The ruins of Ai Khanoum in northern Afghanistan—a Greek theater, a gymnasium, and inscriptions from Delphi—seem to confirm this picture at first glance. But the actual history of Hellenistic Bactria and the neighboring Indo-Greek kingdoms is far more complex. These realms survived for generations not by resisting change…
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