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  1. From Geography to Paradoxography: the use, transmission and survival of Megasthenes’ Indica.Sushma Jansari - 2020 - Journal of Ancient History 8 (1):26-49.
    Megasthenes was the first Greek ambassador known to have been sent to the court of a Mauryan ruler. He wrote an Indica based on his travels and experiences in India, which survives in fragmentary form in the work of later authors. This was the first work to provide a Greek audience with first-hand knowledge of the Indian interior and Mauryan court. Traditionally, Megasthenes’ Indica has been excavated for information to reconstruct knowledge of Mauryan India, Seleucid-Mauryan relations or other aspects of (...)
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  • Diodorus Siculus’ ‘Slave War’ Narratives: Writing Social Commentary in the Bibliothēkē.Peter Morton - 2018 - Classical Quarterly 68 (2):534-551.
    Diodorus Siculus has not enjoyed a positive reputation among historians of antiquity. Since the nineteenth century hisBibliothēkēhas been dismissed as a derivative work produced by an incompetent compiler, useful often only in so far as one can mine his text for lost and, evidently, far superior works of history. Diodorus’ own input into theBibliothēkēhas been dismissed as the clumsy intervention of ‘a small man with pretensions’. In one of the sharpest expressions of the traditional view, Diodorus is not a historian (...)
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