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Megasthenes (/mɪˈɡæsθɪniːz/ mi-GAS-thi-neez;
Ancient Gr****: Μεγασθένης, died c. 290 BCE) was an
ancient Gr**** historian, indologist, diplomat, ethnographer...
- Ἰνδικά; Latin: Indica) is an
account of
Mauryan India by the Gr****
writer Megasthenes (died c. 290 BCE). The
original work is now lost, but its
fragments have...
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Geographica by Strabo, and
Bibliotheca historica by
Diodorus Siculus — note
Megasthenes to have
described an
Indian tribe called Sourasenoi who
worshiped one...
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Medon Agrius Promus Ctesius Acarnan Cycnus Pseras ****anicus
Periphron Megasthenes Thrasymedes Ormenius Diopithes Mecisteus Antimachus Ptolemaeus Lestorides...
- spra**** on
their victims.
Megasthenes and
Pliny the
Elder (quoting
Megasthenes)
mentioned these people in his Indica.
Megasthenes located them at the mouth...
- Genus:
Graphium Species: G. gelon
Binomial name
Graphium gelon (Boisduval, 1859)
Synonyms Papilio gelon Boisduval, 1859
Papilio megasthenes Mathew, 1889...
- has
evidently been
derived from Asvakan, the ****akenoi of Arrian... " (
Megasthenes and Arrian, p 180. See also: Alexander's
Invasion of India, p 38; J.W...
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Androsthenes of
Thasos Archias of
Pella Alexander the
Great Nearchus Pytheas Megasthenes Xu Fu
Hippalus Julius Caesar Eudoxus of
Cyzicus Maes Titi**** Military...
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records of the
Mauryan times are
partial records of the lost
history of
Megasthenes in
Roman texts of
several centuries later, the
Edicts of Ashoka, which...
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Androsthenes of
Thasos Archias of
Pella Alexander the
Great Nearchus Pytheas Megasthenes Xu Fu
Hippalus Julius Caesar Eudoxus of
Cyzicus Maes Titi**** Military...
