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Indo-Greek kingdoms and Greco-Bactrian Kingdoms were founded by the successors of Alexander the Great (Greek conquests in India). Yavana era describes the period with Greek presence in India. According to Indian sources, Greek troops seem to have assisted Chandragupta Maurya in toppling the Nanda Dynasty and founding the Mauryan Empire. [65]
Bacchus/ Dionysus returning from ancient India. A legendary account states that when the Greek God Bacchus/Dionysus grew up, he discovered the culture of the vine and the mode of extracting its precious juice, being the first to do so; [1] but Hera struck him with madness, and drove him forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth.
The start of the period is typically taken to be the slow collapse of the Gupta Empire from about 480 to 550, [21] ending the "classical" period, as well as "ancient India", [22] although both these terms may be used for periods with widely different dates, especially in specialised fields such as the history of art or religion. [23]
Also, most of the coins of the Greek kings in India were bilingual, written in Greek on the front and in Pali on the back (in the Kharosthi script, derived from Aramaic, rather than the more eastern Brahmi, which was used only once on coins of Agathocles of Bactria), a tremendous concession to another culture never before made in the Hellenic ...
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The settlement of Greek merchants in Bengal began in the early eighteenth century and lasted until the middle of the twentieth century. [6]The trading house of the Ralli Brothers which operated in Kolkata and Dhaka was the most important Greek business presence in India during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Epistola was composed in Greek. [1] The original version may have adhered more closely to historical fact than later versions. [3] An abridged version, including much fabulous material, was incorporated into the Alexander Romance no later than the third century AD. [1]
The transmission of the Greek Classics to Latin Western Europe during the Middle Ages was a key factor in the development of intellectual life in Western Europe. [1] Interest in Greek texts and their availability was scarce in the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages , but as traffic to the East increased, so did Western scholarship.