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The Making of Roman India (Greek Culture in the Roman World)

The Making of Roman India (Greek Culture in the Roman World)

by Grant Parker (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 374
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03 Mar 2011
ISBN 10: 0521175364
ISBN 13: 9780521175364
Book Overview: Discusses ancient Greek and Roman perceptions of India during a thousand-year period.

Media Reviews
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 in ancient representations of India. It may well become a classic on the subject.' De novis libris iudicia
'The great virtue of the book is that it admirably demonstrates how, though Roman India never existed as a political reality, the discourse on India helped define Greek and roman culture and history for over a thousand years.' International Journal of the Classical Tradition
Parker makes a welcome foray into the study of cultural connections between two of the most significant civiilzations in the ancient world, Rome and India. ...a valuable contribution to a neglected field of scholarship. ...Parker's work has value as an exploration of Indian images in the Roman world. Recommended. --Choice
...this is a book that through its approach deals with much more than the making of Roman India alone. It is about the nature of Rome as both a successor culture and a world Empire, and as such it 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. --BMCR
...this work offers much food for thought, not only for studies of Roman conceptions of the world and their empire but for other significant debates in Roman culture. NECJ, Nevile Morley, University of Bristol