How Did the Ramayana, India’s Great Epic, Remember the Ancient Greeks?

How Did the Ramayana, India’s Great Epic, Remember the Ancient Greeks?

Lord Rama Returns in Victory to Ayodhya, Pahari, Kangra. Credit: Fitzwilliam Museum/ Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain Ramayana, India’s great epic poem, mentions in various chapters the Greeks. This implies that Greeks were actually present in what is modern day India before the composition of this epic poem, which narrates the journey of virtue in the annihilation of vice. Ramayana is composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars…