Talk:India (Herodotus)

Ancient Greek geography?
The lead of this article starts off by making claims about "ancient Greek geography" in general. It is an unreasonable generalisation from Herotodus, whose knowledge was quite limited to the Achaemenid Empire. But knowledge grew pretty rapidly. For example:

So there was India beyond the Indus.

Why the term "India" got extended from the Indus to the subcontinent beyond it is a question that has hardly received any attention.

Anyway, I will be making some edits to clarify these points. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 08:51, 19 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I would also like to register, with some admiration, this fine edit by an IP editor, which cleanly punctures the claim that Herodotus was talking about "India" at all. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:17, 19 November 2020 (UTC)