The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks /
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Princeton University Press,
2019
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| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| institution | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |
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| spelling | Stoneman, Richard 6052 The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019. 525 pages ; 24 cm 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. 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. fast 6053 Indo-Greeks India. 6054 Civilization Greek influences. fast (OCoLC)fst00862910 6055 Indo-Greeks. fast (OCoLC)fst00970474 6056 India Civilization Greek influences. 6057 India History 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. 4125 India. fast (OCoLC)fst01210276 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 774 |
| spellingShingle | Stoneman, Richard The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Indo-Greeks India. 6054 Civilization Greek influences. fast (OCoLC)fst00862910 6055 Indo-Greeks. fast (OCoLC)fst00970474 6056 |
| title | The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / |
| title_auth | The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / |
| title_full | The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman. |
| title_fullStr | The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman. |
| title_short | The Greek experience of India : |
| title_sort | greek experience of india from alexander to the indo greeks |
| title_sub | from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / |
| topic | Indo-Greeks India. 6054 Civilization Greek influences. fast (OCoLC)fst00862910 6055 Indo-Greeks. fast (OCoLC)fst00970474 6056 |
| topic_facet | Indo-Greeks Civilization Indo-Greeks. Greek influences. History |
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