The Brahmans’ Utopia from the Greek Sources to John of Salisbury’s Policraticus
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Keywords

Brahmans
Alexander
Island
Utopia
Policraticus

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Di Serio, Chiara. 2021. “The Brahmans’ Utopia from the Greek Sources to John of Salisbury’s Policraticus”. In Gremium. Studies in History, Culture and Politics, no. 15 (December), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.34768/ig.vi15.357.

Abstract

This work focuses on the Graeco-Roman sources which describe the remote space inhabited by the Brahmans, the Indian sages who met Alexander the Great. The aim of the research is to illustrate: a) the impact of the descriptions by Greek authors who employ the topos of the spatial remoteness of the Brahmans from the Western world; b) how the same theme becomes even more evident in the late antique sources up to the medieval texts, among which a passage from John of Salisbury’s Policraticus constitutes a relevant part of the investigation.

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