I'm studying the relationship between Rome and Eastern civilizations right now. And the search for academic books for relations with China and Parthia went very smoothly, but not so much in India ...
Romano-Indian is terra incognita for me... So any help?
Grant Parker, The Making of Roman India. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge/New York, 2008.
a good comprehensive overview and well-received. good bibliography for further deep-diving.
M. A. Cobb, * Rome and the Indian Ocean trade from Augustus to the early third century CE*. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
another good recent and comprehensive treatment. This has probably the most up-to-date bibliography one can find on the topic, and Brill is an exceptional academic press.
R. Tomber, Indo-Roman Trade: from Pots to Pepper. London: Duckwork, 2008.
I'd check out Cobb first
K. S. Mathew, ed. Imperial Rome, Indian Ocean regions and Muziris: new perspectives on maritime trade. Routledge 2017.
another one on res maritimae
W. Ball, * Rome in the East : the transformation of an empire*. Routledge, 2016. > see the later chapters
Begley and De Puma, eds. Rome and India: the ancient sea trade. Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
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