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Grant Parker

Autor(a) de The Making of Roman India

4+ Works 24 Membros 1 Review

Obras por Grant Parker

The Making of Roman India (2008) 11 exemplares
Ancient India in Its Wider World (2008) — Editor — 4 exemplares
South Africa, Greece, Rome : classical confrontations (2017) — Editor — 3 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1967-03-16
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
South Africa (birth)
USA

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There was, of course, never a "Roman India" in the sense of an India controlled by Rome, or one Romanized in culture. Rather, the book is about India as perceived by the Romans (of the Imperial period: 1st to 6th centuries AD). The India of Roman collective imagination, if one wills. Examining various relevant texts, Parker surveys a number of recuring themes, such as India as a principal source of marvels (ie., monstrous races and other prodigities of nature), India as source of luxury products, and India as home of eastern wisdom as embodied by ascetical brahmans.

I mostly liked it. The language gets heavily academic at times, and at times I'd liked if Parker would have expanded a little more on the (known or infered) Indian reality or lack thereof behind Roman ideas, but these are quibbles.
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AndreasJ | Feb 7, 2012 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
4
Also by
12
Membros
24
Popularidade
#522,742
Avaliação
½ 4.3
Críticas
1
ISBN
8