Alexander to Augustus - 350 BCE to 100 CE
Here literature and empire connect directly. Greek/Hellenistic influence stretches from the Mediterranean toward Central and South Asia.
Greece/Macedonia: Aristotle – Alexander the Great – Hellenistic world
India: Mauryan Empire – Ashoka
China: Qin unification – Han dynasty – Sima Qian
Rome: Roman Republic – Cesar – Augustus
Literature: Bhagavad Gita traditions – Virgil’s Aeneid – Ovid’s Metamorphoses – Horace
Ideas travel with empires.

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