Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a
wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey
of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources, both
archaeological and documentary. He emphasises the social processes
whereby the notion of India gained its exotic features, including
the role of the Persian empire and of Alexander's expedition. Three
kinds of social context receive special attention: the trade in
luxury commodities; the political discourse of empire and its
limits; and India's status as a place of special knowledge,
embodied in 'naked philosophers'. Roman ideas about India ranged
from the specific and concrete to the wildly fantastic and the book
attempts to account for such variety. It ends by considering the
afterlife of such ideas into late antiquity and beyond.
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