-
account of the interview. It was
Onesicritus, whom
Alexander first sent to
summon Dandamis to his court. When
later Onesicritus returned empty-handed with the...
- source. He
mentions fourteen authors, some of whom
believed the
story (
Onesicritus, Cleitarchus),
while others took it to be only
fiction (Aristobulus of...
-
brands as
liars the
other earlier writers on India,
including Deimachus,
Onesicritus, Nearchus.
According to Strabo, "no
faith whatever can be
placed in Deimachos...
-
great seamanship was not
required – the
naval responsibilities were
Onesicritus’.
Nearchus compiled the
story of his
expedition into a
written work—the...
- Alexander's
companion was
Onesicritus,
quoted in Book 15,
Sections 63-65 by Strabo, who
describes yogins of India.
Onesicritus claims those Indian yogins...
-
father Peleus, who in his turn gave them to me."
Arrian states, with
Onesicritus as his source, that
Bucephalus died at the age of thirty.
Other sources...
-
Ptolemy and Nearchus; Aristobulus, a
junior officer on the campaigns; and
Onesicritus, Alexander's
chief helmsman. Finally,
there is the very
influential account...
- Alexander's
companions was
Onesicritus (quoted in Book 15,
Sections 63–65 by
Strabo in his Geography), who
describes yogis.
Onesicritus says that the
yogis were...
- back from him in proskynesis.
Writing shortly after Alexander's death,
Onesicritus invented a
tryst between Alexander and Thalestris,
queen of the mythical...
-
Heraclides Book 6: The
Cynics Antisthenes,
Diogenes of Sinope, Monimus,
Onesicritus,
Crates of Thebes, Metrocles, Hipparchia, Menippus,
Menedemus Book 7:...
