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De Grieks-Romeinse wereld en Indië

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Abstract

Throughout Antiquity contacts and exchanges have taken place between the Graeco-Roman and the Indian worlds: war, politics and trade. Several periods are highlighted, viz. that of the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Indo-Greeks. Special attention is paid to the mechanisms, routes, products and people involved in the overland and maritime trade. Cul¬ tural and linguistic exchanges are retraced and an evaluation is made of the mutual knowledge and understanding between Greeks and Indians. Although protracted contacts over centuries led to a large number of affinities and similarities between Ancient India and the Ancient West, the¬ re never was a far-reaching or generalised cultural osmosis between the two.

How to Cite:

Seldeslachts, E., (2002) “De Grieks-Romeinse wereld en Indië”, Tetradio 11(1): 3, 73–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tetradio.91965