The Making of Roman India (Greek Culture in the Roman World) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Making of Roman India Discusses ancient Greek and Roman perceptions of India during a thousand-year period.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 03 March 2011
- Format: Paperback 374 pages
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- Categories: Globalization | Asian History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780521175364 ISBN 10: 0521175364
- Sales rank: 934,224
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Full description for The Making of Roman India
Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources, both archaeological and documentary. He emphasises the social processes whereby the notion of India gained its exotic features, including the role of the Persian empire and of Alexander's expedition. Three kinds of social context receive special attention: the trade in luxury commodities; the political discourse of empire and its limits; and India's status as a place of special knowledge, embodied in 'naked philosophers'. Roman ideas about India ranged from the specific and concrete to the wildly fantastic and the book attempts to account for such variety. It ends by considering the afterlife of such ideas into late antiquity and beyond.
