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Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India entitled Indica ( which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India ), and of a history of Assyria and Persia in 23 books, called Persica, written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic dialect, and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives.
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Ctesias and was
Ctesias related that Artaxerxes II was also called Arsicas which is understood as a similar shortening with the Persian suffix-ke that is applied to shortened names.
The Greek historians Ctesias and Deinon noted that Artaxerxes II was also called Arsicas or Oarses respectively similarly understood to be derived from Khshayarsha, the former as the shortened form together with the Persian suffix-ke applied to such shortened names.
Ctesias of Cnidus (; ) was a Greek physician and historian from Cnidus in Caria.
Ctesias, who lived in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger.
An inscription on one of the tombs declares it to be that of Darius Hystaspis, concerning whom Ctesias relates that his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached by the use of ropes.
Ctesias assumes that it was the custom for a king to prepare his own tomb during his lifetime.
Cyrus the Great was buried in Pasargadae, which is mentioned by Ctesias as his own city.
Ctesias ' account was later expanded on by Diodorus Siculus.
Ctesias ( as known from Diodorus ) also related that after the death of Ninus, his widow Semiramis, who was rumored to have murdered Ninus, erected to him a temple-tomb, 9 stadia high and 10 stadia broad, near Babylon, where the story of Pyramus and Thisbe ( Πύραμος ; Θίσβη ) was later based.
According to Herodotus, the name of the Magian usurper was Oropastes, but according to Ctesias it was Sphendadates.
According to Ctesias, who is not especially reliable but is often our only source, Amytis, wife of Megabyzus and daughter of Xerxes, was accused of adultery shortly afterwards.
Ctesias tells us the reason was that Amestris had the captives from the Egyptian revolt executed, though Megabyzus had given his word that they would not be harmed.
He was an obscure historical figure known primarily from the writings of Ctesias.
The usual account of Mesopotamian history came from Ctesias of Cnidus's Persica, while most of the value of Berossos was seen to be his astrological writings.
The ancient Greek historians Ctesias and Plutarch noted that Cyrus was named from Kuros, the Sun, a concept which has been interpreted as meaning " like the Sun " by noting its relation to the Persian noun for sun, khor, while using-vash as a suffix of likeness.
Sardanapalus (; sometimes spelled Sardanapallus ) was, according to the Greek writer Ctesias of Cnidus, the last king of Assyria.
The character which Ctesias depicted or invented, an effeminate debauchee, sunk in luxury and sloth, who at the last was driven to take up arms, and, after a prolonged but ineffectual resistance, avoided capture by suicide, cannot be identified.
Ctesias of Cnidus relates that Datis was slain at Marathon and that the Athenians refused to hand over his body, however this conflicts with Herodotus ' earlier analysis that Datis survived the battle
According to Herodotus, he was a son of Persian king Darius I by his wife Atossa, and full brother of Xerxes I. Ctesias, who wrongly calls him Achaemenides, states that he was a son of Xerxes, rather than his brother.
Astyages ( spelled by Herodotus as Ἀστυάγης-Astyages ; by Ctesias as Astyigas ; by Diodorus as Aspadas ; Akkadian: Ištumegu, was the last king of the Median Empire, r. 585 BCE-550 BCE, the son of Cyaxares ; he was dethroned in 550 BCE by Cyrus the Great.
Ctesias and author
The Byzantine scholar Photius, epitomizing an ancient work by the Greek author Ctesias ( Indica, L ), writes: " In Ethiopia there is an animal called crocottas, vulgarly kynolykos, of amazing strength.
Ctesias and on
The satirist Lucian thought so little of Ctesias ' historical reliability that in his satirical True Story he places Ctesias on the island where the evil were punished.
Eudoxus, the astronomer, Ctesias, the writer on Persian history, and Sostratus, the builder of the celebrated Pharos at Alexandria, are the most remarkable of the Knidians mentioned in history.
Pliny the Elder cited Ctesias and quoted Photius identifying the Chimera with an area of permanent gas vents which still can be found today by hikers on the Lycian Way in southwest Turkey.
Identified authors on whose works he drew include Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyllus, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius, and Posidonius.
The traditional view based on the majority of ancient sources, e. g., Darius the Great's Behistun inscription, as well as Herodotus, Justin, and Ctesias, although there are minor differences between them.
According to Ctesias, on his deathbed Cyrus appointed Bardiya as satrap ( governor ) of some of the far-eastern provinces.
It passed into European folklore first through a remark by Ctesias, a Greek physician at the Persian court of King Artaxerxes II in the fourth century BC, in his notes on India (" Indika "), which circulated among Greek writers on natural history but have not survived.
In the fifth century BC, the Greek physician Ctesias wrote a detailed report on the existence of cynocephali in India.
Where he relied on Ctesias, the value of his work is slim.
Ctesias and Persian
* Jan P. Stronk: Ctesias ' Persian History.
Ctesias mentions further, with regard to a number of Persian kings, either that their remains were brought " to the Persians ," or that they died there.
For the origin of Cyrus the Great's mother, Herodotus identifies Mandane of Media, and Ctesias insists that she is fully Persian but gives no name, while Nicolaus gives the name " Argoste " as Atradates's wife ; whether this figure represents Cyno or Cambyses's unnamed Persian queen has yet to be determined.
In Ctesias ' tale ( reported by Diodorus ) the war originated from an offence the king gave to an able powerful Persian, called Parsodes.
Ctesias and account
Herodotus presents the Lydian accounts of the conversation with Solon ( Histories 1. 29 -. 33 ), the tragedy of Croesus ' son Atys ( Histories 1. 34 -. 45 ) and the fall of Croesus ( Histories 1. 85 -. 89 ); Xenophon instances Croesus in his panegyric fictionalized biography of Cyrus: Cyropaedia, 7. 1 ; and Ctesias, whose account is also an encomium of Cyrus.
Ctesias, in his Persica, has the longest account, which says Cyrus met his death while putting down resistance from the Derbices infantry, aided by other Scythian archers and cavalry, plus Indians and their elephants.
Ctesias and India
" In On the Nature of Animals ( Περὶ Ζῴων Ἰδιότητος, De natura animalium ), Aelian, quoting Ctesias, adds that India produces also a one-horned horse ( iii.
* Andrew G. Nichols, Ctesias: On India.
* Indica ( Ctesias ), a recording of the beliefs of the Persians about India by Ctesias
Ctesias and Indica
Indica contained many legends and fabulous stories, similar to those we find in the Indica of Ctesias.
* Ctesias, Indica, as excerpted by Photios in his Epitome, tr.
* Photius ' excerpt of Ctesias ' Indica ( English )
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