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Definition of Megasthenes

Megasthene
Megasthene Meg"as*thene, n. [Gr. me`gas great + sthe`nos strength.] (Zo["o]l.) One of a group which includes the higher orders of mammals, having a large size as a typical characteristic.

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- 305 to 281 BCE for the loose range of years that Megasthenes' mission might have begun. Megasthenes was a Gr**** amb****ador of Seleucus I Nicator in the...
- writer Diodorus to Megasthenes. However, Diodorus does not mention Megasthenes even once, unlike Strabo, who explicitly mentions Megasthenes as one of his...
- Geographica by Strabo, and Bibliotheca historica by Diodorus Siculus — note Megasthenes to have described an Indian tribe called Sourasenoi who worshiped one...
- According to Arrian, amb****ador Megasthenes (c. 350 – c. 290 BCE) lived in Arachosia and travelled to Pataliputra. Megasthenes' description of Mauryan society...
- spra**** on their victims. Megasthenes and Pliny the Elder (quoting Megasthenes) mentioned these people in his Indica. Megasthenes located them at the mouth...
- vastness of his resources." Megasthenes, in Indica The city prospered under the Mauryas and a Gr**** amb****ador, Megasthenes, resided there and left a detailed...
- Medon Agrius Promus Ctesius Acarnan Cycnus Pseras ****anicus Periphron Megasthenes Thrasymedes Ormenius Diopithes Mecisteus Antimachus Ptolemaeus Lestorides...
- historian Megasthenes. Both of them were mentioned by Strabo. Both of these men were sent [as] amb****adors to Palimbothra (Pataliputra): Megasthenes to Sandrocottus...
- almost entirely dismisses Megasthenes as unreliable, questioning the wording used by Megasthenes' informant and Megasthenes' interpretation of them. Timmer...
- again after the fall of the Nandas. It is described as "Calingae" in Megasthenes' Indica (3rd century BCE): The Prinas and the Cainas (a tributary of...