The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman.
The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman.
The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman.
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Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/3598
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English
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xviii, 525 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2019.
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New Jersey
Date Published
2019.
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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 witnesse...
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The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-509) and index.
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G 2019/3598
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74VKVe6d6dK3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVe6d6dK3
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ISBN
0691154031 hardcover
9780691154039 hardcover
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934
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991024252712002626
