Christopher I. Beckwith

A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world. In the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy and the Classical age across the ancient world in the West, the Near...

Pyrrho of Elis accompanied Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC. There, he encountered early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha illustrates how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the renowned founder of Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece. Christopher I. Beckwith traces the origins of a...