An article on the first Greek Indologist Demetrios Galanos (1760 -1833) by Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterjee (1890—1970) published in সাংস্কৃতিকী, চতুর্থ খণ্ড (SANSKRITIKI 4th Part), Ananda Publishers, Kolkata, 1993, pp. 67-71. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, was an Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur. He was a recipient of the second-highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Vibhushan. He joined the University of …
REVELATION OF HINDI-STYLE SONGS IN GREECE
THE REVELATION OF HINDI-STYLE SONGS IN GREECE Original Greek title: ΙΝΔΟΠΡΕΠΩΝ ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΗ by Helen Abadzi & Manuel Tassoulas Rendered into English with Commentaries by Radhika Yeddanapudi (2016) Around the year 1954, there appeared in Greece from the magical land of India, films with haunting melodies that had been well hidden in the records of some …
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Seleucid Coins Online – a research tool for Graeco-Bactrian numismatics
Seleucid Coins Online (SCO), launched by the American Numismatic Society The most up-to-date catalogue available to students of Graeco-Bactrian Coins and Indo-Greek history. The current version of SCO (v.2), launched in November, 2018, completes the type corpus incorporating material related to Seleucid Coins, Part I, covering the reigns from Seleucus I to Antiochus III (c. …
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Polyaenus’ Stratagems
Polyaenus, a second-century teacher of rhetoric, was born around AD 100 in Bithynia from a family of Macedonian descent. For some time he lived in Rome where he practiced the profession of a jury orator. Polyaenus wrote eight books with nine hundred stratagems, which start with Dionysus’ campaign to India and Bactria. The second chapter …
Demetrios Galanos’ books in the Indo-Greek Digital Library
The forerunner of Modern Greek Indology was undoubtedly Dimitrios Galanos the Athenian (1760-1833), who lived and worked for 40 years in Benaras, India, translating into Greek some of the most important texts of Indian literature. The manuscripts of Galanos were transferred, according to his last will, to the National Library of Athens, where they are …
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आत्मवीर सुकरात के जीवन पर एक दृष्टि (A sight on the heroic life of Socrates )
HERACLITUS AND THE BUDDHA
INDIA IN GREECE
HELLENISM IN ANCIENT INDIA
by Banerjee, Gauranga Nath Introduction — The Hellenistic influence on the art of India: architecture, sculpture, painting, coinage. — The evolution of scientific and literary culture in India and Hellenism: astronomy, mathematics, medicine, art of writing, literature, drama. — Independent evolution of religion, philosophy, mythology and fables in India and in Greece Publisher Calcutta, 1920 …
THE INDIKA OF MEGASTHENES
Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, ca. 350 – 290 BCE) was the first foreign Ambassador to India and recorded his ethnographic observations in a volume known as INDIKA. For his pioneering work he is regarded as the Father of Indian History. The term “Indika” (Greek Ινδικά) was used in ancient Greece to mean various India-related things, including the …