c. 340-c. 282 B.C. Greek Historian and Diplomat Megasthenes was neither the first European to travel to India nor the first to write of it. Yet his work attracted considerable attention in ancient times, and exerted an impact on the portrait of India...

Megasthenes (ca. 350 BC - 290 BC) was a Greek traveller and geographer. He was born in Asia Minor and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of Syria to the court of Sandrocottus (Chandragupta Maurya) of India, in Pataliputra. However the exact date of his...