# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/megasthenes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:29:42.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/megasthenes"
name: "Megasthenes"
slug: "megasthenes"
description: "Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian, indologist, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book Indica, which is now lost, but has been partially reconstructed from literary fragments found in later authors that quoted his work. Megasthenes was the first person from the Western world to leave a written description of India."
tagline: "Ancient Greek ethnographer and explorer"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "-350"
deathDate: "-290"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump