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Megasthenes' Indica - A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary (Hardcover)
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Megasthenes' Indica - A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
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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.
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