place
India
The lands east of Persia at the edge of the Greek world, reached by Alexander's conquests.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §7 Indians
The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, named as the far eastern limit reached by Greek settlement after Alexander.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.59.12 India
The far eastern limit of Alexander's conquests; Seneca's setting for the king's near-fatal wounding, which forced even him to admit his mortality.
- Natural Questions §5.18.2 India
The Indian subcontinent, watered (with Ethiopia) by the monsoon rains during the Etesian season.
- Oedipus §110 far Indians
India, the eastern limit of Bacchus's triumphal conquests.
- Oedipus §110 reddening sea
The Erythraean Sea (Indian Ocean / Red Sea), the eastern shore where Bacchus's soldier marched and the sun rises.
- Phaedra §343 Indian
India, here the home of the striped tigers.
- Thyestes §546 Indian of the nearer Sun
India, land of the rising sun.