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Megasthenes ( / mɪˈɡæsθɪniːz / mi-GAS-thi-neez; Ancient Greek: Μεγασθένης, died c. 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book Indica, which is now lost, but has been partially reconstructed from literary fragments found in later authors that quoted his work.
Megasthenes (born c. 350 bc —died c. 290) was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat, author of an account of India, the Indica, in four books. An Ionian, he was sent by the Hellenistic king Seleucus I on embassies to the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta.
Megasthenes was a Greek Diplomat, Historian and ethnographer whose extensive writings about the cultures of India gave an insight into the lives of ancient Indians during the rule of Chandragupta Maurya.
Mar 7, 2024 · Who was Megasthenes? Megasthenes was a historian and diplomat, serving as an ambassador of Seleucus I Nicator, the Macedonian king to Mauryan Empire in India. Megasthenes resided in the...
Jan 12, 2018 · Megasthenes, Greek ambassador to the Mauryan court of Chandragupta at Pataliputra during the fourth century B.C. In his Indika, Megasthenes noted that “Heracles [Krishna] is held in especial honor by the Sourasenoi, an Indian tribe who possess two large sites, Methora and Cleisbora, and through whose country flows a navigable river called ...
Chandragupta Maurya empire, to which Megasthenes was an ambassador [1] Indika (Greek: Ἰνδικά; Latin: Indica) is an account of Mauryan India by the Greek writer Megasthenes. The original work is now lost, but its fragments have survived in later Greek and Latin works.
Megasthenes was the only Greek envoy attested at Chandragupta's court, and the only known negotiations between the Mauryan and Seleucid regimes were those of 304/3.
In Megasthenes …an account of India, the Indica, in four books. An Ionian, he was sent by the Hellenistic king Seleucus I on embassies to the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta. He gave the most complete account of India then known to the Greek world and was the source for work by the later… Read More; account of. Indian agricultural practices
megasthenes (ca. 350–290 BCE) was the author of the most extensive description of India, its geography, peoples, customs and (to some extent) history written by a Greek author. 1 He was for many years associated with Sibyrtios, the satrap of Arachosia and Gedrosia, and therefore presumably lived in Kandahar (Alexandria in Arachosia).
Jul 27, 2021 · 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...
