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Ctesias: On India
A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures as the unicorn and the martichora, along with real life subjects such as the parrot and the art of falconry. Confirming pre-existing conceptions of what were considered to be the edges of the earth, Ctesias' Indika helped shape the Greek view of India. This English translation is accompanied by explanatory notes and includes all extant fragments of the Indika, as well as fragments of Ctesias' other minor works.
Ctesias: On India
A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures as the unicorn and the martichora, along with real life subjects such as the parrot and the art of falconry. Confirming pre-existing conceptions of what were considered to be the edges of the earth, Ctesias' Indika helped shape the Greek view of India.
Ctesias’ Persica in Its Near Eastern Context
A modern historian sheds new light on an ancient Greek history of Persia.
Ctesias' 'History of Persia'
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of Persian court life and access to the gossip and scandal surrounding Persian history and court politics, past and present. His History of Persia was completed at a time when the Greeks were fascinated by Persia and seems very much to cater to contemporary interest in Persian wealth and opulence, powerful Persian women, the institution of the harem, kings and queens, eunuchs and secret plots. Presented here in English translation for the first time with commentaries, Ctesias offers a fascinating insight into Persia in the fifth century BC.
Ctesias' world
Ktesias' Persika haben Konjunktur. Man konsultiert die Geschichte der Abfolge der drei Weltreiche des Nahen Ostens in 23 Buchern im Rahmen altorientalischer Geschichte sowie als Zeugnis fur die griechisch-persischen Beziehungen und fur die griechische Erinnerungskultur des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Andere Gelehrte sind an den vielfaltigen griechischen Bildern des Orients interessiert, an der Entstehung des Zerrbildes der "orientalischen Despotie" oder des ebenso wirkmachtigen Schemas von der Abfolge von Weltreichen und stossen deshalb auf den Arzt aus Knidos. Schliesslich spielen die Persika, deren Gattungszugehorigkeit bis heute ebenso umstritten ist wie die Augenzeugenschaft des Autors, auch...
The Greek World in the 4th and 3rd Centuries BC
This volume contains eight studies written by scholars from Great Britain, Israel, Poland, and the United States. The contributors are all specialists in Greek history, and their essays deal with different aspects of the period's history, focusing on historiography, political evelopments, and military actions and events.
