Contatos culturais por meio do material monetário nos limites da expansão helênica na Báctria e na Índia (Séculos III-I AEC)

Abstract

This research intends to understanding the context of cultural relations in Bactria and India, between greeks and native people. The research’s time frame beggins on the Bactria’s Independence from the Seleucid empire, in middle 255 BCE, through Diodotus I, the first Greek-Bactrian king. Thus began a period of more then a century of dynasties and war for the control of this region, until the kingdom be destroyed by invasions of nomad groups of Central Asia, like the Scythians. Until the end of the kingdom, due to the miltiar campaigns in the Northwest of India, another kingdom was founded in the dominated regions, the indo-greek kingdom. In this kingdom, that would be destroyed in the beggining of the Common Era due to Indo-Parthians invasion, its possible to identify signs of cultural interactions between greco-bactrians and natives of regions in India dominated by the greeks. Mainly through the coins of the period, we have discussed about borders and ethnic identities in these spaces with an interdisciplinary method of analysis of the material and literary sources available, to understand the process of "Hellenization" in this region, discussing this term as a type of unidirectional vision of the dominant group in this context of cultural relations.