Ancient India as Described by Megasthenês and Arrian
Author | : Megasthenes |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Megasthenes |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Megasthenes |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Narain Singh Kalota |
Publisher | : Concept Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Flavius Arrianus |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Richard Stoneman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691217475 |
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE. When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various and puzzling. While Alexander's conquest was brief, ending with his death in 323 BCE, the Greeks would settle in the Indian region for the next two centuries, forging an era of productive interactions between the two cultures. The Greek Experience of India explores the various ways that the Greeks reacted to and constructed life in India during this fruitful period. From observations about botany and mythology to social customs, Richard Stoneman examines the surviving evidence of those who traveled to India. Most particularly, he offers a full and valuable look at Megasthenes, ambassador of the Seleucid king Seleucus to Chandragupta Maurya, and provides a detailed discussion of Megasthenes's now-fragmentary book Indica. Stoneman considers the art, literature, and philosophy of the Indo-Greek kingdom and how cultural influences crossed in both directions, with the Greeks introducing their writing, coinage, and sculptural and architectural forms, while Greek craftsmen learned to work with new materials such as ivory and stucco and to probe the ideas of Buddhists and other ascetics.
Author | : Ctesias |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : India |
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Release | : 1877 |
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Author | : Ekansh Awasthi |
Publisher | : WebGuruCool |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2024-03-03 |
Genre | : Education |
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From times immemorial, India, as a country, has been of great interest to the world owing to its dynamic culture and vast diversity. This has attracted many travelers and historians to India who either visited it or read extensively about it with the help of sources available to them. Of all these, Greek writers and historians visited India extensively, especially from the times of Alexander and left detailed accounts about the country. These accounts are known as classical accounts which are an important source to study the history of ancient India, undoubtedly from the perspectives of the foreigners. Megasthenes and Arrian were such two writers who had left detailed account of contemporary India. Their accounts discuss and describe various aspects of the country like its myths and legends, its geography and agriculture, its wildlife and landscape, its administration, its society and most importantly the people who formed the Indian society. These descriptions have been dealt with in detail under two sections for the descriptions or accounts left by Megasthenes and Arrian respectively. Although these accounts are vivid and describe India in detail, yet they need to be carefully assessed at times, sometimes by comparative studies or general logic, since these were left by foreign writers who often did not used to have a clear idea about the foreign land with which they were interacting. Therefore, if and when possible and necessary, the same has been done in this work as well.
Author | : Allan Dahlaquist |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1996-12-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120813236 |
This work deals at length with various theories about relgion prevalent at the time when Megasthenes visited India very interesting and scholarly views have been put forth regarding investigations of Megasthenes their reliability and the reliability of his reporters. Undoubtedly Culture of India lacks historical aspect inasmuch-as does not provide as to when an event took place or certain concept was first used
Author | : Megasthenes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : India |
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