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The Making of Roman India
Grant Parker
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Description for The Making of Roman India
Paperback. Discusses ancient Greek and Roman perceptions of India during a thousand-year period. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 602.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Series
Greek Culture in the Roman World
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521175364
SKU
V9780521175364
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Reviews for The Making of Roman India
Review of the hardback: '… deserves to be widely studied and used as a source of inspiration on how to deal with processes of cultural interaction in the Hellenistic and Roman world.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review '… a very significant contribution to our understanding of the complex processes of portraying cultural difference and negotiating the use of conventional narrative elements ... Read more