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The ancient Greek marriage celebration consisted of a three part ceremony which lasted three days: the proaulia, which was the pre-wedding ceremony, the gamos, which was the actual wedding, and the epaulia, which was the post-wedding ceremony. Most of the wedding was focused on the experience of the bride. [1]
Contents. Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations. Pataliputra Palace capital, showing Greek and Persian influence, early Mauryan Empire period, 3rd century BC. For the ancient Greeks, “India" ( Greek: Ινδία) referred to the polity situated east of Persia and south of the Himalayas (with the exception of Serica ).
Lèbes gamikòsby Asteas, c. 340BC, National Archaeological Museum of Spain. The lèbes gamikòsor "nuptiallebes" (pl.: lèbetes gamikòi) is a form of ancient Greek potteryused in marriage ceremonies (literally, it means marriage vase). [1][2]It was probably used in the ritual sprinkling of the bride with water before the wedding.
India is one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse countries in the world. The concept of "Indian culture" is a very complex and complicated matter. Indian citizens are divided into various ethnic, religious, caste, linguistic and regional groups, making the realities of "Indianness" extremely complicated.
The Heliodorus pillar is a stone column that was erected around 113 BC in central India [citation needed] in Vidisha near modern Besnagar, by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas [ 230] to the court of the Shunga king Bhagabhadra. The pillar originally supported a statue of Garuda.
A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower. While bride price or bride service is a payment by the groom, or his family, to the bride, or her family, dowry is the wealth transferred from the ...
Legacy. v. t. e. The legacy of the Indo-Greeks starts with the formal end of the Indo-Greek Kingdom from the 1st century, as the Greek communities of central Asia and northwestern India lived under the control of the Kushan branch of the Yuezhi, Indo-Scythians and Indo-Parthian Kingdom. [1] The Kushans founded the Kushan Empire, which was to ...
Indo-Greek art is the art of the Indo-Greeks, who reigned from circa 200 BCE in areas of Bactria and the Indian subcontinent. Initially, between 200 and 145 BCE, they remained in control of Bactria while occupying areas of Indian subcontinent, until Bactria was lost to invading nomads. After 145 BCE, Indo-Greek kings ruled exclusively in parts ...