Megasthenes' Indica Stoneman Richard University of Exeter UK
Megasthenes' Indica Stoneman Richard University of Exeter UK This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE,…
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Megasthenes' Indica Stoneman Richard University of Exeter UK
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. Stoneman's work offers a reliable and accessible version of all the writings that can plausibly be ascribed to Megasthenes. 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.
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