079: The Indo-Greeks - Homer on the Indus
The Hellenistic Age Podcast
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The History of Alexander the Great in Central Asia
While sites like Ikanum were destroyed or abandoned, many of the settlements founded by the Greeks appeared to have prospered and retained a sense of Hellenic identity long afterwards. Alexandria and Erycosia is still described by Isidore of Carax as the flourishing metropolis during the first century AD. The continuity of Greco-Bactrian architecture in the Kushan Empire was also observed by Chinese travelers. Few if any pieces of Indian literature referred to Alexander's campaigns though, which might be viewed from the Indian perspective as an extended raiding party rather than a grand conquest.
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