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Prologue: The Moon at Noon; PART I. FIRST IMPRESSIONS; 1. Writing a Book about India; 2. Alexander in India; 3. Heracles and Dionysus; 4. The Natural History of India; PART II. MEGASTHENES' DESCRIPTION OF INDIA; 5. Introducing Megasthenes; 6. Megasthenes' Book; 7. Geography and Ancient History; 8. Culture and Society; 9. The Question of Utopia; 10. Megasthenes on the Natural World; PART III. INTERACTIONS; 11. The Indian Philosophers and the Greeks
12. Two Hundred Years of Debate: Greek and Indian Thought13. The Trojan Elephant: Two Hundred Years of Co-existence from the Death of Alexander to the Death of Menander, 323 to 135 BCE; 14. Bending the Bow: K[cGa, Arjuna, Rāma, Odysseus; 15. Greeks and the Art of India; 16. Apollonius of Tyana and Hellenistic Taxila; Appendix: Concordance of the Fragments of Megasthenes; Bibliography; Index
12. Two Hundred Years of Debate: Greek and Indian Thought13. The Trojan Elephant: Two Hundred Years of Co-existence from the Death of Alexander to the Death of Menander, 323 to 135 BCE; 14. Bending the Bow: K[cGa, Arjuna, Rāma, Odysseus; 15. Greeks and the Art of India; 16. Apollonius of Tyana and Hellenistic Taxila; Appendix: Concordance of the Fragments of Megasthenes; Bibliography; Index