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grbs-16940	Ewald, Owen M.	Asking and Answering: An Indian Genre in Greek?	2024	23	.pdf	application/pdf	8120	365	64	The Gymnosophist episode in Plutarch occurs in the context of his invasion of what is now India, especially the subsequent resistance to Macedonian rule by King Sabbas, called Sabeilo in the Berlin Papyrus or Sambas in other sources.25 Alexander attributes Sabbas’ revolt to his advisors, the Gymnosophists or ‘naked philosophers’.26 4 Van Thiel, Hermes 100 (1972) 354–358, does a side-by-side comparison with the Berlin Papyrus, Plutarch, and the Metz Epitome; Stoneman, Alexander 19, 236, dates the earliest version of the Alexander Romance to the late third century C.E., although based on earlier Hellenistic material, and the Metz Epitome to the fourth or fifth century; for the heterogeneity of the Romance see I 38 ASKING AND ANSWERING ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 64 (2024)	cache/grbs-16940.pdf	txt/grbs-16940.txt