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Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana, and the Indian embassies to Rome from the reign of Augustus to the death of Justinian

Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana, and the Indian embassies to Rome from the reign of Augustus to the death of Justinian

Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx

Paperback

Travel WritingAncient History GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9353603080
ISBN13: 9789353603083
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Feb 25 2019
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At the edge of empire, a philosopher sets out for the East and the world's horizons shift. These journeys changed global history. In this ancient history book, Osmond De Beauvoir Priaulx revisits the legendary Apollonius of Tyana travels, weighing the testimony of Philostratus' Apollonius of Tyana against wider classical sources to ask what truly lay behind stories of Greek philosophers in India. With the care of a jurist and the curiosity of a traveller, he traces how ideas, cults, and rumours moved between the Mediterranean and the Indian subcontinent. Turning from biography to diplomacy, Priaulx follows the documented Indian embassies to Rome and the arc of Roman Indian relations from Augustan to Justinian Rome. Drawing on scattered references in historians, geographers, and ecclesiastical writers, he pieces together a rigorous narrative of contact between the Roman Empire and India: ships, spices, envoys, and the understandings they carried. The result serves as both a clear introduction for classics students and a precise scholarly reference work for ancient history researchers, useful to general readers of empire and trade as well as to specialists in cross-cultural exchange. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. As a classic reprint edition, this modern text reconnects readers with a major study of the Roman Empire and India, rewarding both working scholars and serious collectors.

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