• 305 to 281 BCE for the loose range of years that Megasthenes' mission might have begun. Megasthenes was a Greek ambassador of Seleucus I Nicator in the...
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    writer Diodorus to Megasthenes. However, Diodorus does not mention Megasthenes even once, unlike Strabo, who explicitly mentions Megasthenes as one of his...
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    Porus (redirect from Megasthenes' Herakles)
    Geographica by Strabo, and Bibliotheca historica by Diodorus Siculus — note Megasthenes to have described an Indian tribe called Sourasenoi who worshiped one...
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    several Greeks, such as the historian Megasthenes, Deimachus and Dionysius resided at the Mauryan court. Megasthenes in particular was a notable Greek ambassador...
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    vastness of his resources." Megasthenes, in Indica The city prospered under the Mauryas and a Greek ambassador, Megasthenes, resided there and left a detailed...
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  • sprayed on their victims. Megasthenes and Pliny the Elder (quoting Megasthenes) mentioned these people in his Indica. Megasthenes located them at the mouth...
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    Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian; being a translation of the fragments of the Indika of Megasthenês collected by Dr. Schwanbeck, and...
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  • historian Megasthenes. Both of them were mentioned by Strabo. Both of these men were sent [as] ambassadors to Palimbothra (Pataliputra): Megasthenes to Sandrocottus...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Indika may refer to: An alternate name of Megasthenes' Indica Indika (video game) [ru], an adventure video game developed by...
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    Medon Agrius Promus Ctesius Acarnan Cycnus Pseras Hellanicus Periphron Megasthenes Thrasymedes Ormenius Diopithes Mecisteus Antimachus Ptolemaeus Lestorides...
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