A Study Of Greek Gods In Central Asia

With the campaign of Alexandria,many Greeks were settled in Central Asia.The Greek gods worship was also infiltrated Central Asia through Bactria.This paper summarizes the images of the 23 Greek gods unearthed in Central Asia,including coin images and artwork images.The coin images represent the monarchs' preference for the Greek gods,and the artworks represent the worship of the people.The Greeks advocated the worship of gods.In order to get the same aesthesis of religion,they were keen to correspond the Greek gods to the local gods.In the process of cultural exchanges,the Greek god Tyche was used for the Indian gods Hariti,Lakshmi and Ardokhsho,which is one of gods of Iran.The representative of Hermes was used in the Iran god Pharro and India god Panchika.The images of Heracles are borrowed by Buddha's guard Vajrapani.Poseidon,Heracles,Zeus and the Shiva blend into Zoroastrian gods Veshparkar.Therefore,different Greek gods unearthed in Central Asia are analysied in the first four parts of this Study.To clarify that Greek gods were simple imitated in the early process of culture exchange,and in the later process,the craftsmen of Central Asia learned from the Greek gods images and innovated by the influence of multicultural factors.On the basis of these,reasons of the spread and development of Greek gods in central Asia is explored.The connotation of the evolution in the dissemination is summed up.The spread of the Greek gods in Central Asia,on the one hand,brought the spirit of realism and the concept of ‘man of God',and provided the object of imitation for the artistic creation,which directly promoted the creation of the Gandhara Buddha and the development of the Buddha's story relief.On the other hand,it prompted the appearance of playwright in ancient Gandhara region.These are intuitive reflection of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges on the intersection of a variety of cultures in ancient time.