The Naked Wise Men of India
The main aim of this study is the transmission of the image of the "naked philosophers" (gymnosophistai), identified with the Brahmans, from Hellenistic authors to late antiquity. The earlier descriptions have the double purpose of, on the one hand, defining the cultural distance separatin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Morcelliana
2021
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2021, Volume: 87, Issue: 2, Pages: 673-695 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Greece (Antiquity)
/ India
/ Cultural contact
/ Indian philosophy
/ Ascetic
/ Cultic nakedness
/ Reception
/ Literature
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BE Greco-Roman religions BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBK Europe (East) KBM Asia |
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Philosophers
B Alexander B Gymnosophists B Alessandro B Brahmans B Fathers of the church B Nakedness B Gimnosofisti B nudità B Brahmanism B Bramani B Hellenistic antiquities |