India, Sept. 19 -- Greco Buddhism was neither any newfound religious ideal and nor was it a sectarian practice of the citizens of Gandhara. Rather, it was the addition of various Hindu and Buddhist elements into the Graeco-Roman art and architecture.

'Olympus: An Indian Retelling of the Greek Myths', penned down by prominent author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, is loosely based on the invincible Macedonian warrior Alexander III and a contemporary Indian sage (whom the author prefers to call a gymnosophist) at a discourse, where cross cultural and philosophical interaction takes place between the parties. Although the incidents portrayed in the book are believed to have been fictionalised to some extent, there do exist evidences of ...