[Buddha-l] Re: Is there any Buddhist influence on the early Greeks?

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:12, Jon Weaver wrote:

>   As I completed my master's at St. John's in Eastern Classics, one of my 
> most accomplished teachers recommended the following, which I have yet  to
> purchase. I'd be curious to hear what Buddha-L denizens think of  this
> text.
>
>   The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian
> Philosophies by Thomas McEvilley

One of my colleagues highly recommended this book to me several months ago. 
Thanks for jarring my memory. I'm going across the quad right now to get it 
out of the Zimmerman library (which is open again after the conflagration 
last spring). Will report back after reading it.

By the way, in looking for the book I noted our library has some 18 books 
written by McEvilley. Color me suspicious, but whenever I encounter someone 
who has written 18 books, I think that either the author is a polymath 
genius, or the author writes very superficial books really fast, or the 
author has a team of underpaid graduate students doing most of his research 
for him. From what I have heard, McEvilley falls into the first category 
(which does not preclude his also falling into the other two).

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes