History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET June 2012 History
The Indica of Megasthenes was preserved in later Greek accounts. Which one of the following Greek writers' accounts is not associated with the Indica?
AKtesias ✓ Correct
BStrabo
CArrian
DPliny
Correct answer: (A) Ktesias — Ktesias is not associated with the Indica, so the answer is Ktesias.
Explanation
★Ktesias is not associated with the Indica, so the answer is Ktesias.
★The Indica of Megasthenes survives only in fragments quoted by later Greek and Roman writers.
★Strabo, the geographer, preserved much of Megasthenes in his Geographica.
★Arrian drew on Megasthenes for his own work titled the Indica.
★Pliny the Elder also cited Megasthenes in his Natural History.
★Ktesias wrote his own earlier Indica based on Persian tales, separate from Megasthenes.
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