Where and when cataract surgery started have been a mystery. Indian tradition and the
Persian author Zarrin-Dast attributed the procedure to the Indians, while pseudo-Galen …

An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first
centuries BCE When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in …

Names: Garfield, Jay L., 1955–author. Title: Losing ourselves: learning to live without a
self/Jay L. Garfield. Description: Princeton: Princeton University Press,[2022]| Includes …

This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was
geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself …

What was it like to be a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism? This important volume brings
together for the first time a selection of Richard Bett's essays on ancient Pyrrhonism …

What happens to aesthetic preferences over time? Everyday experience suggests that our
preferences change over the course of our lives. Unfortunately, much of the existing …

Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin
at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did? Why was …

This work invites us to view the Pyrrhonist tradition as involving all those who share a
commitment to the activity of Pyrrhonizing and develops fresh, provocative readings of …

How did Christianity make its remarkable voyage from the Roman Mediterranean to the
Indian subcontinent? By examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late …

Names: Beckwith, Christopher I., 1945–author. Title: The Scythian empire: Central Eurasia
and the birth of the classical age from Persia to China/Christopher I. Beckwith. Description …