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Author: Udai Prakash AroraPublisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Research papers on the cultural intercourse between India and Greece in the fields of history, philosophy, art, literature, and religion.
Graeco-Indica, India's Cultural Contects [sic] with the Greek World
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Author: Udai Prakash AroraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Research papers on the cultural intercourse between India and Greece in the fields of history, philosophy, art, literature, and religion.
The Greek Experience of India
Author: Richard StonemanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
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.
Ctesias: On India
Author: Andrew NicholsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472519981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures as the unicorn and the martichora, along with real life subjects such as the parrot and the art of falconry. Confirming pre-existing conceptions of what were considered to be the edges of the earth, Ctesias' Indika helped shape the Greek view of India. This English translation is accompanied by explanatory notes and includes all extant fragments of the Indika, as well as fragments of Ctesias' other minor works.
Megasthenes' Indica
Author: Richard StonemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000411834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs available to the classical world. The Indica was a pioneering work of ethnography that exemplified a new direction in Hellenistic writing; India was little-known to the Greeks before the expedition of Alexander the Great in 326–325 BCE, and Megasthenes, who resided as an ambassador in the Maurya capital Pataliputra for some time, provided the classical world with most of what it knew about India. Megasthenes’ book, which became a classic in antiquity, now survives only in fragments preserved in other Greek and Latin authors. Stoneman’s work offers a reliable and accessible version of all the writings that can plausibly be ascribed to Megasthenes. His subject ranges from detailed accounts of social structure and the royal household, to descriptions of elephant hunting and Indian philosophical ideas. His book is the only written source contemporary with the Maurya kingdom of Candragupta, since writing was not in use in India at this date. This translation provides a path to clearer understanding of Greek ethnography and a valuable resource on Indian history. The book will be of value not only to classical scholars with an interest in Hellenistic history and cultural attitudes, and to their students, but also to scholars working on the early history of India, who have had to rely (unless they are also Greek scholars) on scattered and dated collections of evidence.
Non-Aryan Linguistic Elements in the Atharvaveda
Author: Abhijit GhoshAccessions List, South Asia
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New DelhiPublisher:
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Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Ātharvaṇā
Author: Abhijit GhoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vedas
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Studia Orientalia
Author: Bibliography of Asian Studies
Author: Information Gathering in Classical Greece
Author: Frank Santi RussellPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472110643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"Information Gathering in Classical Greece opens with chapters on tactical, strategic, and covert agents. Methods of communication are explored, from fire-signals to dead-letter drops. Frank Russell categorizes and defines the collectors and sources of information according to their era, methods, and spheres of operation, and he also provides evidence from ancient authors on interrogation and the handling and weighing of information. Counterintelligence is also explored, together with disinformation through "leaks" and agents. The author concludes this fascinating study with observations on the role that intelligence-gathering has in the kind of democratic society for which Greece has always been famous"--Publisher description.