Thundering Zeus

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Summary

This book is a history of Hellenistic Bactria, account of the history of the study of Hellenistic Bactria, and an introduction to numismatics.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
The Hellenistic Background	p. 1
Silence at Babylon	p. 1
Hellenistic Bactria	p. 9
Across the Chasm	p. 21
The Seleucids and Central Asia	p. 21
Monetizing the East	p. 29
A Traveler's Tale	p. 37
An Elusive Dynasty	p. 48
Documents and Debris	p. 48
Literary Sources	p. 55
Historical Processes	p. 60
How Money Talks	p. 67
Everything, and Nothing	p. 67
Missing Kings	p. 72
Expanding Horizons	p. 78
Division in the Ranks	p. 83
Thundering Zeus	p. 87
Seven Pounds of the Past	p. 87
The Elder Diodotus	p. 94
The Younger Diodotus	p. 101
The World of Bronze	p. 107
Hermes and Zeus	p. 107
Patterns of Everyday Life	p. 115
The Monarchy Affirmed	p. 126
Euthydemus and Antiochus	p. 126
Silence in Bactria	p. 133
A Catalog of Diodotid Coinage in Silver and Gold	p. 139
A Catalog of Diodotid Coinage in Bronze	p. 164
Some Diodotid Gold Forgeries	p. 172
A Selection of Ancient Texts	p. 174
Glossary	p. 185
Abbreviations	p. 189
Select Bibliography	p. 193
Coin Index	p. 209
Author Index	p. 212
Subject Index	p. 214
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