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# J. W. McCrindle (John Watson McCrindle)

Scottish classicist in India; translated the Greek and Latin accounts of India (1877–1901).

## Translations (19)

- [Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (Ancient India as Described by Megasthenês and Arrian)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.hellenistic.megasthenes~en-mccrindle) — English; 1877 CE
- [Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (Indika) (Ancient India as Described by Megasthenês and Arrian (Indika))](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.arrian.indica~en-mccrindle) — English; 1877 CE
- [The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraean Sea](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.periplus~en-mccrindle) — English; 1879 CE; catalogued, text not yet digitised
- [Ancient India as Described by Ktesias the Knidian (Ancient India as Described by Ktêsias the Knidian)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.classical.ctesias~en-mccrindle) — English; 1882 CE
- [Ancient India as Described by Ptolemy](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.ptolemy.geography~en-mccrindle) — English; 1885 CE
- [The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Arrian)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.arrian.anabasis~en-mccrindle) — English; 1893 CE
- [The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Diodorus 17)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.diodorus~en-mccrindle) — English; 1893 CE
- [The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Curtius' books VIII–IX)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius~en-mccrindle) — English; 1896 CE
- [The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Justin XII.7–10)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.justin~en-mccrindle) — English; 1896 CE
- [The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.late.cosmas~en-mccrindle) — English; 1897 CE
- [Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature (Aelian)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.aelian.de-natura-animalium~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE
- [Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature (Dio Chrysostom)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.dio-chrysostom~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE
- [Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature (Herodotus)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.classical.herodotus~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE
- [Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature (Palladius)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.late.palladius~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE; catalogued, text not yet digitised
- [Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature (Philostratus)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.philostratus~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE; catalogued, text not yet digitised
- [Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature (Strabo, book 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.roman.strabo~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE
- [Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature: Pliny](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE; catalogued, text not yet digitised
- [Rufinus, Hist. Eccles. I.9 (extract)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.rufinus.historia-ecclesiastica~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE
- [The Itinerary of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.alexander.itinerarium-alexandri~en-mccrindle) — English; 1901 CE

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