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# Megasthenes

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## About Megasthenes

ancient Greek ethnographer and explorer... \| Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian, indologist, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book Indica, which is now lost, but has been partially reconstructed from literary fragments found in later authors that quoted his work. Megasthenes was t

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> [India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megasthenes/india-then-being-four-sided-in-plan-the-side-which-looks-to-the/)

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