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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Stoneman, Richard (1951-....)
Titre(s) : The Greek experience of India [Texte imprimé] : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman
Publication : Princeton : Princeton University press, copyright cop. 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVIII-525 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-509) and index
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 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
Sujet(s) : Mégasthénès. Indica
Art -- Inde -- Antiquité
Art -- Inde -- Influence hellénistique
Art gréco-bouddhique
Civilisation -- Inde -- Jusqu'à 1200
Civilisation -- Inde -- Influence hellénistique
Relations -- Grèce -- Inde -- Antiquité
Indo-Grecs
Indice(s) Dewey :
954.02 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Inde - 0647-1785
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0691154031. - ISBN 9780691154039 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45769171k
Notice n° :
FRBNF45769171
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Part I.. First impressions -- ; Writing a book about India -- ; Alexander in India
-- ; Heracles and Dionysus -- ; The natural history of India -- ; Part II.. Megasthenes'
description of India -- ; Introducing Megasthenes -- ; Megasthenes' book -- ; Geography
and ancient history -- ; Culture and society -- ; The question of utopia -- ; Megasthenes
on the natural world -- ; The Indian philosophers and the Greeks -- ; Two hundred
years of debate: Greek and Indian thought -- ; The Trojan elephant: Two hundred years
of co-existence from the death of Alexander to the death of Menander, 323 to 135 BCE
-- ; Bending the bow: Krsna, Arjuna, Rama, Odysseus -- ; Greeks and the art of India
-- ; Apollonius of Tyana and Hellenistic Taxila.
