الهند في كتابات سكيلاكس الكارياندي وهيكاتيوس الميليتي (Arabic)

India in the Writing of Scylax of Caryanda and Hecataeus of Miletus. (English)

When Alexander the Great marched to India about the end of the Fourth century BC and seized part of it to his empire, it was not the first time that Greeks heard of this part of the world, because they already knew much about it before. Many words of Indian products from this country were spread in the Greek literature even before the fourth century B.C. Even Homer himself referred to the people who lived in the Far East and called them "Ethiopians". This has increased our knowledge of this country at the end of the sixth century B.C. When the Persian King Darius sent his commander Scylax to explore the Indus, he completed his mission and left abookabout what he had seen. Hecataeus of Miletus himself depended on Scylax when he decided to add a section about India in his book Herodotus used Hecataeus around the end of the fifth century B.C. In this research,wefollow both ScyJax ofCaryandaandHecataeus of Miletusin their writingaboutIndia, stating thatmonitoringofbothof themof information aboutIndia is themostuseful historically, before thecomingof Alexander the Great, not only for the topography of the place, climate, and organisms that live there, but also for the people of this country, and their unique customs and traditions. Thus, Scylax of Caryanda and Hecataeus of Miletus contained important details about this area of the ancient world, which date buck to the Feurth and fifth century B.C. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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