Afghanistan: The lasting legacy of Alexander the Great

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Afghanistan: The lasting legacy of Alexander the Great

The classical world came to Afghanistan with Alexander the Great Between 329 BC and 327 he conquered the area before moving into India.

But he left behind him settlers, cities that he'd founded and of course being Greeks they expressed their culture.

The Greek legacy is so strong because their art is so divinely beautiful.

The legacy of Greek art reached Afghanistan by sea and over land and came up into the places where Alexander had formerly ruled.

Ai Khanum was a city that was founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals in 300 BC.

It was really the furthest outpost of the Greek Empire.

We know so much of it from a Greek site, of a big city on the banks of the River Oxus, miles away from Greece as far as Tasmania from London one feels.

It had Greek statuary, it had a theatre it had a gymnasium.

This is the director of the gymnasium found at the far end of this building he is very much of the tradition of Greek sculpture and he would have probably paid for the gymnasium in the city of Ai Khanum.

It was here that the culture of Greece met with the local culture of Bactria and thus formed this fusion between Greece and Bactria.

This figure here is the statue of Heracles who later became Hercules His body is not as idealized as he would have appeared in Greece.

These two female figures often accompany Dionysus.

In Greece they are depicted as very much human two female human figures but here in the far flung corner of Bactria they've become almost bestialized they're almost like little animals, they have horns and they have a skin which is almost like an animal skin.

We have the single most amazing monument I know the most amazing thing in London at the moment.

Well it's a big claim but I'll explain why.

It's the base inscribed of what would have been a display of 150 little one line sayings from the seven wise men of the world on how we should behave.

They're not very dramatic.

When you're young study hard.

When you're a young man be sober, very good advice.

When you're old be wise, die without pain.

And that was found in the central shrine of the city Unfortunately the area became involved in the civil war and the war with the Russians.

And indeed there was a mortar place just by the city lobbing rockets to people on the other side of the River Oxus.

And when that was over the site was cross-ploughed by people with bulldozers, thinking that they could find treasure.

This of course is disastrous, it destroys all the stratigraphy and the wonderful things that could have been found for Afghanistan of the future I have been to Afghanistan, I've been three times.

It breaks my heart to think of what is happening to some of the most wonderful people I've know in my lifetime.

But you have to see the setting you marvel at how an army thirty, forty thousand strong could have been brought into this area by the Great commander Alexander.

Once you see the landscape or once you stand as I once stood on the join of the Oxus and -- - river you simply think I'm dreaming.

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The classical world came to Afghanistan with Alexander the Great Between 329 BC and 327 he conquered the area before moving into India.발음듣기

But he left behind him settlers, cities that he'd founded and of course being Greeks they expressed their culture.발음듣기

The Greek legacy is so strong because their art is so divinely beautiful.발음듣기

The legacy of Greek art reached Afghanistan by sea and over land and came up into the places where Alexander had formerly ruled.발음듣기

Ai Khanum was a city that was founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals in 300 BC.발음듣기

It was really the furthest outpost of the Greek Empire.발음듣기

We know so much of it from a Greek site, of a big city on the banks of the River Oxus, miles away from Greece as far as Tasmania from London one feels.발음듣기

It had Greek statuary, it had a theatre it had a gymnasium.발음듣기

This is the director of the gymnasium found at the far end of this building he is very much of the tradition of Greek sculpture and he would have probably paid for the gymnasium in the city of Ai Khanum.발음듣기

It was here that the culture of Greece met with the local culture of Bactria and thus formed this fusion between Greece and Bactria.발음듣기

This figure here is the statue of Heracles who later became Hercules His body is not as idealized as he would have appeared in Greece.발음듣기

These two female figures often accompany Dionysus.발음듣기

In Greece they are depicted as very much human two female human figures but here in the far flung corner of Bactria they've become almost bestialized they're almost like little animals, they have horns and they have a skin which is almost like an animal skin.발음듣기

We have the single most amazing monument I know the most amazing thing in London at the moment.발음듣기

Well it's a big claim but I'll explain why.발음듣기

It's the base inscribed of what would have been a display of 150 little one line sayings from the seven wise men of the world on how we should behave.발음듣기

They're not very dramatic.발음듣기

When you're young study hard.발음듣기

When you're a young man be sober, very good advice.발음듣기

When you're old be wise, die without pain.발음듣기

And that was found in the central shrine of the city Unfortunately the area became involved in the civil war and the war with the Russians.발음듣기

And indeed there was a mortar place just by the city lobbing rockets to people on the other side of the River Oxus.발음듣기

And when that was over the site was cross-ploughed by people with bulldozers, thinking that they could find treasure.발음듣기

This of course is disastrous, it destroys all the stratigraphy and the wonderful things that could have been found for Afghanistan of the future I have been to Afghanistan, I've been three times.발음듣기

It breaks my heart to think of what is happening to some of the most wonderful people I've know in my lifetime.발음듣기

But you have to see the setting you marvel at how an army thirty, forty thousand strong could have been brought into this area by the Great commander Alexander.발음듣기

Once you see the landscape or once you stand as I once stood on the join of the Oxus and -- - river you simply think I'm dreaming.발음듣기

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