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Grant Parker

Author of The Making of Roman India

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Works by Grant Parker

The Making of Roman India (2008) 12 copies, 1 review

Mayday: History of a Village Holocaust (1992) 6 copies

Ancient India in Its Wider World (2008) — Editor — 4 copies

South Africa, Greece, Rome : classical confrontations (2017) — Editor — 3 copies

Associated Works

Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World (2017) — Contributor — 9 copies

A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2015) — Contributor — 8 copies

Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (2017) — Contributor — 7 copies

Nile into Tiber: Egypt in the Roman World: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of Isis Studies, Leiden,… (2006) — Contributor — 6 copies

The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers (2014) — Contributor — 6 copies

Roman Roads: New Evidence - New Perspectives (2019) — Contributor — 4 copies

Travel, geography, and empire in Latin poetry (2021) — Contributor — 4 copies

Classics And National Cultures (Edited By: Susan A. Stephens & Phiroze Vasunia) (2010) — Contributor — 3 copies

Approaching monumentality in archaeology (2014) — Contributor — 2 copies

Megasthenes Und Seine Zeit / Megasthenes and His Time (Classica Et Orientalia) (English, German and Italian Edition) (2016) — Contributor — 2 copies

Callida musa: papers on Latin literature in honour of R. Elaine Fantham (2009) — Contributor — 1 copy

Memory as History: The Legacy of Alexander in Asia (2007) — Contributor — 1 copy

Walking through Elysium: Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1967-03-16
Gender: male
Nationality: South Africa (birth)
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The Making of Roman India by Grant Parker

There was, of course, never a "Roman India" in the sense of an India controlled by Rome, or one Romanized in culture. Rather, the book is about India as perceived by the Romans (of the Imperial period: 1st to 6th centuries AD). The India of Roman collective imagination, if one wills. Examining various relevant texts, Parker surveys a number of recuring themes, such as India as a principal source of marvels (ie., monstrous races and other prodigities of nature), India as source of luxury products, and India as home of eastern wisdom as embodied by ascetical brahmans.

I mostly liked it. The language gets heavily academic at times, and at times I'd liked if Parker would have expanded a little more on the (known or infered) Indian reality or lack thereof behind Roman ideas, but these are quibbles.… (more)

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Laurent Bricault

Professor Laura Jansen

Micah Young Myers

Carla M. Sinopoli Editor

Susan A. Stephens

Josef Wiesehöfer

James F. Osborne

Charles William Gladhill

Himanshu Prabha Ray

Himanshu P. Ray Contributor

Alka Patel Contributor

Thomas R. Trautmann Contributor

Shinu A. Abraham Contributor

Martha Ann Selby Contributor

Madhav M. Deshpande Contributor

James Romm Contributor

Federico Freschi Contributor

Roy Sargeant Contributor

Philip R. Bosman Contributor

Deon H. van Zyl Contributor

Nikolai Endres Contributor

Samantha Masters Contributor

Jonathan Allen Contributor

Elke Steinmeyer Contributor

Peter Merrington Contributor

Kathleen M. Coleman Contributor

David Wardle Contributor

John Atkinson Contributor

Rolf Michael Schneider Contributor

Elizabeth Rankin Contributor

John Hilton Contributor

Jo-Marie Claassen Contributor

Anna Tietze Contributor

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Members: 25
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Rating: ½ 4.3

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 8

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