| Description |
1 online resource (173 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Concordance of fragment numbers with the editions of Schwanbeck and Jacoby -- Introduction: Life and work -- The nature of Megasthenes' book -- The reliability of Megasthenes -- The structure of Megasthenes' book -- What is a fragment? -- Other writers on India -- Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Ctesias of Cnidus -- Onesicritus -- Nearchus -- Aristobulus -- After Megasthenes -- Eratosthenes -- Maps -- The fragments -- Book I: Geography and resources -- 1. Summary of geography, history and society -- 2. The geography of India -- 3. The dimensions of India -- 4. The Himalayas ('Caucasus') -- 5. Controversy on the size of India -- 6. The size of India, again -- 7. The northern stars -- 8. Rivers -- 9. Megasthenes' knowledge of India -- 10. The River Silas -- 11. The fertility of India -- 12. Dionysus and Heracles -- 13. Dionysus and Heracles as civilisers -- 14. Pandaea -- 15. Taprobane -- 16. The kartazon -- 17. Pearls -- 18. Trees that grow in the sea -- 19. Poisonous fish -- 20. Monkeys (and other animals) -- 21. Snakes -- 22. The hoopoe (and other birds) -- 23. The gold-guarding ants -- 24. The monstrous races -- 25. The reverse-feet -- 26. The Mouthless Ones and the Dog-heads -- 27. Plutarch on the Mouthless Ones -- Book II: Political structures -- 28. The seven 'castes' -- 29. Funeral rites -- 30. Absence of slavery -- 31. Meals -- 32. Cities -- 33. Palibothra (Pataliputra) -- 34. City officials -- 35. Laws and customs -- 36. Loans and punishments -- 37. Elephants -- 38. Horsecraft -- 39. Elephant ethics -- Book III: The Indian philosophers -- 40. The philosophers -- 41. Calanus and suicide -- 42. Calanus and Dandamis -- 43. The Brahmans -- 44. Strabo on Indian religion and philosophy -- 45. Brahman austerity |
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46. Brahmans and Jews -- Appendix -- (a) Other accounts of the philosophers -- (b) Pliny's account of India -- Commentary -- Commentary on Book I: Geography and resources -- 1. Summary of geography, history and society -- 2. The geography of India -- 3. The dimensions of India -- 4. The Himalayas ('Caucasus') -- 5. Controversy on the size of India -- 6. The size of India, again -- 7. The northern stars -- 8. Rivers -- 9. Megasthenes' knowledge of India -- 10. The River Silas -- 11. The fertility of India -- 12. Dionysus and Heracles -- 13. Dionysus and Heracles as civilisers -- 14. Pandaea -- 15. Taprobane -- 16. The kartazon -- 17. (a and b) Pearls -- 18. Trees that grow in the sea -- 19. Poisonous fish -- 20. Monkeys (and other animals) -- 21. Snakes -- 22. The hoopoe (and other birds) -- 23. The gold-guarding ants -- 24. The monstrous races -- 25. The reverse-feet -- 26. The Mouthless Ones and the Dog-heads -- 27. Plutarch on the Mouthless Ones -- Commentary on Book II: Political structures -- 28. (a and b) The seven 'castes' -- 29. Funeral rites -- 30. Absence of slavery -- 31. Meals -- 32. Cities -- 33. Palibothra (Pataliputra) -- 34. City officials -- 35. Laws and customs -- 36. Loans and punishments -- 37. Elephants -- 38. Horsecraft -- 39. Elephant ethics -- Commentary on Book III: The philosophers -- 40. The philosophers -- 41. Calanus and suicide -- 42. Calanus and Dandamis -- 43. The Brahmans -- 44. Strabo on Indian religion and philosophy -- 45. Brahman austerity -- 46. Brahmans and Jews -- Commentary on appendix -- Pliny's Indian tribes (NH 6.56-80) -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Megasthenes.-Indika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000411799 |
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1000411796 |
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