The Greek Experience of India

Discover the fascinating interactions between the Greeks and Indians during the third to first centuries BCE. Richard Stoneman's exploration of the Greek Experience of India delves into the various ways that the Greeks reacted to and constructed life in India during this fruitful period. Learn how cultural influences crossed in both directions, with the Greeks introducing their writing, coinage, and sculptural forms, while Greek craftsmen learned to work with new materials and to probe the ideas of Buddhists and other ascetics. A masterful account of the encounters between two remarkable civilizations, based on an impressively wide variety of sources from the Indian subcontinent.