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🔴 **Indians: Iamboulos and Diodoros on a utopian island beyond India (mid-first century BCE)**

"_Drawing on a source that claims to be a travelogue (perhaps really a fictional story or novel) by a person named Iamboulos (also transliterated Iambulus), Diodoros focusses on describing the marvels or paradoxes of the environment, animals, and peoples of this exotic landscape._"

Philip A. Harland, 'Indians: Iamboulos and Diodoros on a utopian island beyond India (mid-first century BCE),' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified July 24, 2024, philipharland.com/Blog/?p=8577.

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