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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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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...
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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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cities in the world. As per the Gr**** diplomat,
traveler and
historian Megasthenes,
during the
Mauryan Empire (c. 320–180 BCE) it was
among the
first cities...
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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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ruler of a
kingdom in
South India. In the
account of the
historian Megasthenes, she was a
queen of the
Pandya dynasty.
Pandaie was said to have been...
- as
recipients of worship, are
referred to
together in the same sutra.
Megasthenes, a Gr****
ethnographer and an amb****ador of
Seleucus I to the
court of...
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account is
based on a now-lost work,
probably the
writings of
either Megasthenes or
Hieronymus of Cardia. In Book 2 of
Bibliotheca historica, Diodorus...
