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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Main Author: Di Serio, Chiara (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Morcelliana 2021
In: 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
IxTheo 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
Further subjects:B 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

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