Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and Us
Souhardya De, FRAS
14 episodes
4 days ago
From Greece to Rome, from Egypt to India, philosophy is bound by that single thread of knowledge that uses ‘mythos’ and ‘logos’ to describe the ‘cosmos’. Mythos is Mythology that each of these civilisations extravagantly boast of and logos is using logic besides mythology, to make sense of cosmos or the world. How are the cults of Dionysus and Orpheus related? If Apollo is the Sun God in the Greek Mythology, Phoebus in Rome and Surya in the Indian myths, why do the Egyptians have three different sun gods? Do these questions intrigue you? If yes, do tune into Cosmographia now!
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From Greece to Rome, from Egypt to India, philosophy is bound by that single thread of knowledge that uses ‘mythos’ and ‘logos’ to describe the ‘cosmos’. Mythos is Mythology that each of these civilisations extravagantly boast of and logos is using logic besides mythology, to make sense of cosmos or the world. How are the cults of Dionysus and Orpheus related? If Apollo is the Sun God in the Greek Mythology, Phoebus in Rome and Surya in the Indian myths, why do the Egyptians have three different sun gods? Do these questions intrigue you? If yes, do tune into Cosmographia now!
Megasthenes, Heracles and the Graeco-Indian Classical Antiquity
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and Us
11 minutes 31 seconds
4 years ago
Megasthenes, Heracles and the Graeco-Indian Classical Antiquity
This podcast episode, hosted, written and produced by Souhardya De, is an audio retelling of a column of the same name by Souhardya for the Sunday Guardian. “Civilisations that flourished back to when man worshipped nature as the primordial force from which originated beings, were bound to have resemblances in ideologies, texts, traditions and philosophies. Greeks and Indians are two distinct races, separated by thousands of stadia, divided by natural barriers that include but are not limited to, mountains, highlands, rivers and seas, between which was once extant, the mighty Achaemenid Empire of Persia.”
When Megasthenes was sent to India as the Seleucid Ambassador, he observed a striking resemblance between the Greek culture and the Indian cultural features that included but was not limited to, the characteristic traits of gods and goddesses, the philosophy that was curled up together, only known so long by different denominations. He presumed that Krishna and Balarama would definitely have been Heracles and ended up intermingling the Greek and the Indian pantheon that resulted in a cross cultural discourse, as a result of which a philosophical fusion was born.
Cosmographia: The Graeco-Romans, the Egyptians and Us
From Greece to Rome, from Egypt to India, philosophy is bound by that single thread of knowledge that uses ‘mythos’ and ‘logos’ to describe the ‘cosmos’. Mythos is Mythology that each of these civilisations extravagantly boast of and logos is using logic besides mythology, to make sense of cosmos or the world. How are the cults of Dionysus and Orpheus related? If Apollo is the Sun God in the Greek Mythology, Phoebus in Rome and Surya in the Indian myths, why do the Egyptians have three different sun gods? Do these questions intrigue you? If yes, do tune into Cosmographia now!
