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The Greek experience of India : from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks / Richard Stoneman

An exploration of the cultural and historical interactions between Greece and India from the third to first centuries BCE. It analyses surviving evidence from art, philosophy, and literature to examine the mutual influences these civilisations shared.

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