The Greek experience of India: from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks.
by Stoneman, Richard
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India srge Stoneman, Richard The Greek experience of India: from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019, 525 pages, bib, index. Fine in fine dust jacket. $30.00 Box B50
Contents: Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Conventions; Prologue: The Moon at Noon; Part I. First impressions; 1. Writing a Book about India; 2. Alexander in India; 3. Heracles and Dionysus; 4. The Natural History of India; Part II. Megasthenes' description of India; 5. Introducing Megasthenes; 6. Megasthenes' Book; 7. Geography and Ancient History; 8. Culture and Society; 9. The Question of Utopia; 10. Megasthenes on the Natural World; Part III. Interactions; 11. The Indian Philosophers and the Greeks 12. Two Hundred Years of Debate: Greek and Indian Thought13. The Trojan Elephant: Two Hundred Years of Co-existence from the Death of Alexander to the Death of Menander, 323 to 135 BCE; 14. Bending the Bow: K[cGa, Arjuna, Rāma, Odysseus; 15. Greeks and the Art of India; 16. Apollonius of Tyana and Hellenistic Taxila; Appendix: Concordance of the Fragments of Megasthenes; Bibliography; Index
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- The Greek experience of India: from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks.
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- Stoneman, Richard
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- Fine in fine dust jacket
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- Princeton, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 2019
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- 525
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- Ancient World; Philosophy; India. Indian history and culture; Greece, History and Literature; From the Levant to the Indus;
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