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Indica
Ἰνδικά
Known · Probablein Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of History
Conjecturedvery likely classMegasthenes
Indica
Ἰνδικά
Opening words not preserved.
Length: not counted
Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.
II · Does it survive? Where to read it
Survives in fragments
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · ProbableProbably held in the Library.
In the cupboard: no source names the Alexandrian copy, but its scholars' use of it makes one very likely.
Read it today
- McCrindle, Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (1877) · a translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
III · In the show
The show has not yet spoken of this work.
IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references (4)
- Strabo 15.1
- Arrian, Indica
- Diodorus Siculus 2.35-42
- Clement, Stromata 1.15.72
Modern scholarship
- R. Stoneman, The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019).
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