Flavije Arijan: Indija

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Indija

Flavije Arijan

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Arrian: India

Thus, during the entire classical period, India was known only from the descriptions of a few geographers and travelers (Scylacus, Hecataeus, Ctesias). It was not a mythical land: trade links developed between India and the Greek world; merchants go there to buy spices, pearls, rare animals; writers describe with more or less accuracy and imagination those distant regions, which, however, remain shrouded in the allure of the romantic and the miraculous. It was not until Alexander's campaign that India and Greece really came into close contact. This was already well expressed by Pliny the Elder...

 

 

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