William Smith
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Excerpt from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Vol. 2 of 2: Iabadius-Zymethus It is not remarkable that the Greeks should have had but little knowledge of India or its inhabitants till a comparatively late period of their history, and that neither Homer nor Pindar, nor the great Greek dramatists Sophocles and Euripides, should mention by its name either India or any of its people. It is pro bable that, at this early period, neither commerce nor any other cause had led the Greeks beyond the shores of Syria eastward, and that it was not till the Persian wars that the existence of vast and populous regions to the E. Of Persia itself became distinctly known to them. Some individual names may have reached the ears of those who inquired; perhaps some indi vidual travellers may have heard of these far distant reshna; such, for instance, as the physician De mocedes, when residing at the court of Dareius, the son of Hystaspes (llerod. Iii. And Democritus of Abdera (a. 0. 460 who is said by several authors to have travelled to Egypt, Persia, Aethio pin, and India (diog. Laiirt. Ix. 72; Strab. Xvi. P. 703; Clem. Strom. I. P. 304; Suidae, e. Yet little was probably known beyond a few names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
