India in Greece Or, Truth in Mythology

India in Greece Or, Truth in Mythology
Author: E. Pococke
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9788129137944

Where did the Aryans come from originally? Did they invade India? Or were they actually Indian invaders who colonized Greece? In India in Greece, E. Pococke explores the theory that the Aryans may have originally travelled from India to Greece, colonized the latter and influenced the culture there. Centuries later, they came back to India. Covering topics as diverse as the sources of the Hellenic Race, the colonization of Egypt and Palestine, the wars of the Grand Lama and the Bud'hist propaganda in Greece, the author tries to show that at some point in history, India and Greece were closely associated.

India in Greece

India in Greece
Author: Edward Pococke
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781498149358

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1852 Edition. Containing The Sources Of The Hellenic Race, The Colonization Of Egypt And Palestine, The Wars Of The Grand Lama And The Buddhistic Propaganda In Greece.

The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India

The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India
Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108499554

Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.

The Greek Experience of India

The Greek Experience of India
Author: Richard Stoneman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691217475

An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE. When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various and puzzling. While Alexander's conquest was brief, ending with his death in 323 BCE, the Greeks would settle in the Indian region for the next two centuries, forging an era of productive interactions between the two cultures. The Greek Experience of India explores the various ways that the Greeks reacted to and constructed life in India during this fruitful period. From observations about botany and mythology to social customs, Richard Stoneman examines the surviving evidence of those who traveled to India. Most particularly, he offers a full and valuable look at Megasthenes, ambassador of the Seleucid king Seleucus to Chandragupta Maurya, and provides a detailed discussion of Megasthenes's now-fragmentary book Indica. Stoneman considers the art, literature, and philosophy of the Indo-Greek kingdom and how cultural influences crossed in both directions, with the Greeks introducing their writing, coinage, and sculptural and architectural forms, while Greek craftsmen learned to work with new materials such as ivory and stucco and to probe the ideas of Buddhists and other ascetics.

Splitting the Difference

Splitting the Difference
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1999-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780226156408

Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled. This text recounts and compares a range of these. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture.

Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought

Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
Author: Seaford Richard Seaford
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474411002

From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred - independently it seems - in both India and Greece, but not in the vast Persian Empire that divided them. How was this possible? This is a puzzle that has never been solved. This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures, and on how to explain them. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the big questions inspired by the ancient world.

Olympus

Olympus
Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9385990195

• Olympus is the home of the Greek gods, much like Amravati of the Hindu devas. • Zeus, leader of Olympians, wields a thunderbolt like Indra, and rides an eagle like Vishnu. • The feats of the Greek hero Heracles, known to Romans as Hercules, reminded many of Krishna, as did his name, ‘Hari-kula-esha’ or lord of the Hari clan. • The Greek epic of a husband sailing across the sea with a thousand ships to bring his wife, Helen, back from Troy seems strikingly similar to the story of Ram rescuing Sita from Lanka. Is there a connection between Greek and Hindu mythology then? Does it have something to do with a common Indo-European root? Or maybe an exchange of ideas in the centuries that followed the arrival of Alexander the Great, when Greek emissaries travelled to the kingdoms of Mathura and Magadha? In this book, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik turns his attention to ancient Greek tales, and explores a new world of stories. Long have Europeans and Americans retold Indic mythologies. It is time for Indians to reverse the gaze.

Early Greece

Early Greece
Author: Oswyn Murray
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674221321

Murray traces the emergence of urbanisation and social and political structures from the Mycenean and legendary origins of Greece through to the Persian Wars.

A Defense of Rule

A Defense of Rule
Author: Stuart Gray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190636319

While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain how rule need not be understood as anathema to political life. By looking at some of the earliest traditions of political thought, Stuart Gray establishes a new analytic approach to understanding fundamental political ideas of other cultures and time periods, and he uses this comparative analysis to re-envision the meaning of rule in contemporary political life.