The Greek Experience of India [standard text English - rendering in Greek by Homer Hermides.] / Η Ελληνική Εμπειρία της Ινδίας [πρότυπο κείμενο αγγλικά - απόδοση στα ελληνικά Όμηρος Ερμιδης.] / L'esperienza greca dell'India [testo standard inglese - resa in greco Omero Ermide.] / Греческий опыт Индии [стандартный текст на английском языке – перевод на греческий язык Гомер Гермид.]

 

The Greek Experience of India

By Owain Williams

“Generally speaking, the men who hitherto have written on the affairs of India, were a set of liars,” at least, according to Strabo (2.1.9). It is this central premise that Richard Stoneman has set out to explore in his exploration of the cultural interactions between the ancient Greeks and Indians in The Greek Experience of India (Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019). In his own words, “I hope to show that this encounter was more than an encounter between people … that two peoples grew and learned as a result of their familiarity with one another” (p. 2). Truly, this is an admirable ambition, the pursuit of which will lead the reader on an odyssey of hundreds of years, from the shores of the Aegean to the island of Sri Lanka.

Τα σπήλαια Karla στην Ινδία (φωτο), μετάφραση του Όμηρου Ερμίδη - Karla Caves in India (foto), traduzione di Omero Ermide

Τα σπήλαια Karla στην Ινδία, μετάφραση του Όμηρου Ερμίδη - Karla Caves in India, traduzione di Omero Ermide - The Karla Caves in India (photo), translated by Homer Ermidis