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02969aam a2200397 i 4500 001 2ED073B8550D11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180430t20192019njua b 001 0 eng c 020 $a 9780691154039 020 $a 0691154031 035 $a (OCoLC)1032723070 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 4 $a DS451 $b .S86 2019 082 04 $a 950 100 1 $a Stoneman, Richard, $e author. 245 14 $a The Greek experience of India : $b from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / $c Richard Stoneman. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey, $b Princeton University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xviii, 525 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE0When 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. 650 0 $a Indo-Greeks $z India. 651 0 $a India $x Greek influences. $x Greek influences. 651 0 $a India $x History $y 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. 650 7 $a Civilization $x Greek influences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862910 650 7 $a Indo-Greeks. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00970474 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 648 7 $a 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042930.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213015428.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2ED073B8550D11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search