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Information trouvée : John Watson McCrindle (16 May 1825 - 16 July 1913, West Cliff-on-Sea) was a Scottish
classical philologist and educator who wrote several major works on references to
India in ancient classical writings. He wrote a number of works (first in the Indian
Antiquary and later as books) on ancient India as described in the works of Ctesias,
Megasthenes and Arrian; the Periplus Maris Erythraei ("Coastal Cruise of the Red Sea");
Ptolemy's geography of India and the invasion of India by Alexander the Great.
The invasion of India by Alexander the Great : as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius,
Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin / by J. W. M'Crindle, 1893