The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks

This book represents a continuation and an extension of Stoneman’s previous researches into the Greek experience of India. It aims to recover the observations of Alexander’s studious companions and ‘to test them against what we can know from an Indian point of view, as well as to identify the patterns in the curtains that prevented them too from seeing India clearly’ (7). It is also show more about ‘the encounter of two incommensurable civilizations that came face to face for two pregnant centuries’ (2). These two centuries are between Alexander’s Indian campaign and Menander’s death. The chronological span under consideration, therefore, is limited to the period 326 – ca. 135 BC, but for the purposes of his study Stoneman often goes beyond those dates. Geographically, the focus is on the area of Northern India (between the Indus and Ganges) and largely ignores the rest of the subcontinent and Taprobane. show less