{"title":"Prologue: The Moon at Noon","authors":"R. Stoneman","doi":"10.1515/9780691185385-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185385-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125902462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geography and Ancient History","authors":"R. Stoneman","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv3znwg5.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3znwg5.13","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers accounts of the geography and ancient history of India. For example, Arrian explicitly based his account of the geography and hydrography of India on Eratosthenes, who must have used Megasthenes, while Strabo incorporated his references to Megasthenes into the general discussion of these matters in which he takes issue with all his predecessors, referring also from time to time to Daimachus and Patrocles. The closest approach to Megasthenes' original has usually been taken to be Diodorus 2.35–42. Regarding the boundaries of India, Diodorus overlaps with Megasthenes, but the latter is not necessarily his sole source. In fact, he may be following Eratosthenes in the first instance. He also follows Eratosthenes on the Sacae.","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128943020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Hundred Years of Debate","authors":"R. Stoneman","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"The Greeks' evident fascination with the Indian “philosophers” they encountered reflects the fact that both peoples had a strong tradition of speculative thought. Though it takes the present discussion outside the chronological limits of the fourth to second centuries BCE, it is impossible to assess the interactions of Indian and Greek thinkers in the period without considering the possible antecedents from the sixth century BCE, and, to some extent, the later echoes of Indian ideas in Neo-Platonism. Accordingly, this chapter consists of a series of case studies, either of possible philosophical common ground, or of known personal interactions of Greeks with Indian thought. They are a heterogeneous group, but the cumulative effect will be a nuanced view of the Greek experience of Indian thought.","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123441647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Hundred Years of Debate:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv3znwg5.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3znwg5.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121675390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Megasthenes on the Natural World","authors":"R. Stoneman","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv3znwg5.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3znwg5.16","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses Megasthenes' accounts of India's natural world. For example, his account of the elephant implies their importance to kings: in fact, their prominence in India coincides with the rise of kingship. The terrain in which elephants can thrive is almost the inverse of that suitable for horses: their habitat is jungle, which can be anything from dense forest to open scrub with trees. Nowadays this kind of habitat is found in the more easterly parts of India, but in Alexander's time even the Punjab was thickly forested. The Mahābhārata describes the forests around Delhi (Indraprastha), and even Abu'l Fazl, in the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar, speaks of rhinos, tigers and elephants roaming in this region.","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131470666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Natural History of India","authors":"R. Stoneman","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter details the flora and fauna that interested the Greeks in Alexander's entourage as they entered India. They had read the books on India by Scylax and Ctesias, perhaps with due skepticism, but they waited with curiosity to see how the reality would match up to the limited information with which they were equipped. Ctesias spent seventeen years at the Persian court as a doctor, which undoubtedly gave him an interest in diet and food plants, and wrote two books based on the gossip he picked up there: the Persica and the Indica. Both have been much criticized from antiquity onwards. The first is often at odds with Herodotus and with is known of Persian history; the second is explicitly based on conversations with merchants and diplomats visiting Persia from India.","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129557546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prologue","authors":"R. Stoneman","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"IN INDIA, the curving moon lies on its back, and resembles a little boat sailing sedately across the heavens. The Greek hero Heracles sailed across the sky to the west in the boat of the Sun, a beneficent god. In India, the sun, Surya, is also a god, and the dawn, Uṣas, is a goddess, but the moon is not, like the Greek eye of night, a goddess....","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114214872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing a Book about India","authors":"R. Stoneman","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv3znwg5.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3znwg5.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the challenges of writing a book about India. Three main points emerge from this discussion: (1) Our own presumptions about India make it hard for us to see writers like Nearchus, Onesicritus, and Megasthenes clearly, or to see India with their eyes. (2) Many of the authors who have formed our preconceptions can be used as corroborative detail for what is in the classical authors. Among the most valuable are Xuanzang, al-Biruni, Babur and even Mandeville. (3) Could our central authors—Nearchus, Onesicritus and Megasthenes—see India clearly, or did they look for what Ctesias and Scylax had taught them to expect? Because the earlier authors are lost to us this is very difficult to estimate. With this in mind, one should always test them against other available sources and their likely Indian informants.","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127457359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alexander in India","authors":"R. Stoneman","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers Alexander's expedition to India. The most common explanation for his motives is his pothos, his longing to go beyond, to see what was over the next hill—for in this case, he had been led by Aristotle to suppose that once he crossed the Hindu Kush, the River of Ocean would be in sight and he could go on quickly to conquer the entire world. The motivation is explicitly romantic, and is tied up with the idea of Alexander as an explorer rather than a conqueror. But his exploration also had a practical motive, “from a desire to explore the whole coastline along the route ... to gather information about all the coastal settlements, and to find out what land was fertile and what was desert.”","PeriodicalId":202547,"journal":{"name":"The Greek Experience of India","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125586767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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