Ctesias (/ˈtiːʒəs/; Greek: Κτησίᾱς; fl. fifth century BC), also known as Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus...
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Bardiya (section In Ctesias' Persica)
Tanyoxarces by Ctesias, who also names Gaumāta as Sphendadates; he is called Tanooxares by Xenophon, who takes the name from Ctesias, and he is called...
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Lenfant, Dominique 2004: Ctesias de Cnide, La Perse - L'Inde - Autres Fragments. Paris: Budé, Les Belles Lettres. Ctesias’ Persica fits into a larger...
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Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux. 34: 45–49. Ctesias the Cnidian. Persica. 48. Ctesias the Cnidian. Persica. 52. Ctesias the Cnidian. Persica. 52. Felix Jacoby...
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Seas Wakan Sansai Zue "Ctesias of Cnidus - Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2024-06-23. Nichols, Andrew (2013-11-01). Ctesias: On India. A&C Black....
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genus Ctesias are currently known: Subgenus Ctesias: Ctesias dusmae Beal, 1960 Ctesias hebei Háva, 2004 Ctesias orientalis Zhantiev, 1988 Ctesias serra...
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bark. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ctesias serra. Wikispecies has information related to Ctesias serra. Barnard, Peter C. (2011). The Royal Entomological...
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Ctesias Indica Frag. 45dβ Aelian, NA 4.21; Scholfield, A. F. (tr.) (1918) Characteristics of Animals (Loeb Classical Library); Greek text. Ctesias (1825)...
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Twelve Volumes. Stronk, Jan P. (2010). Ctesias' Persian History: Introduction, text, and translation by Ctesias. p. 60. "IG XIV 588 - PHI Greek Inscriptions"...
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named Smerdis; according to Ctesias of Cnidos (Persika, xii, translated by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and James Robson, Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of...
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Ctesias dusmae is a species of carpet beetle in the family Dermestidae. It is found in North America. Ctesias serra - Ctesias species from Europe "Ctesias...
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He is an obscure historical figure known primarily from the writings of Ctesias. He was the only legitimate son of Artaxerxes I and Damaspia, and is known...
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subspecies are recognised: Ancema ctesia ctesia (Sikkim, Assam, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, possibly Bhutan and Burma) Ancema ctesia agalla (Fruhstorfer, 1912)...
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the differences between the Persian and the Egyptian heads. According to Ctesias, fifty thousand Egyptians fell, whereas the entire loss on the Persian...
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sword, whilst Aspamitres was left in a tub where he was eaten by insects. Ctesias, Persica, books XIV - XVII Diodorus of Sicily, Bibliotheca historica, XI...
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Battle of Cunaxa (section Ctesias)
writer of Antiquity, besides Xenophon, was present at the Battle of Cunaxa. Ctesias, a native of Caria, which belonged to the Achaemenid Empire at the time...
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father of Spitamas. Apart from Ctesias, there are no other classical sources on Usiris. Ctesias the Cnidian. Persica. 40. Ctesias the Cnidian. Persica. 42....
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ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, and Cosmas Indicopleustes. The Bible...
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II.4-6 Ctesias, Photius' summary of Ctesias' Persica, §64 & §68-69 Plutarch, Life of Artaxerxes (the one mention of Meno is a quote from Ctesias) Diodorus...
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Artax. 1.1.5. The latter explicitly names Ctesias (the physician of Artaxerxes (II) Mnemon) as his source. Ctesias, however, names Artostes as the son of...
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that Plutarch's account of Scaphism came from Ctesias, a Greek physician and historian. However, Ctesias's credibility is questionable due to his reputation...
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excerpt of Ctesias' Persica (2)". Archived from the original on 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2020-03-26. Sancisi-Weerdenburg 1987. The work of Ctesias and Dinon...
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of Ninus, or Hercules, whom he identifies with the sun. Ctesias; Stronk, Jan P. (2010). Ctesias' Persian History: Introduction, text, and translation....
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and died by his own hand in 522 BC. Herodotus and Ctesias ascribe his death to an accident. Ctesias writes that Cambyses, despondent from the loss of...
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of which was Merv, in today's Turkmenistan. The early Greek historian Ctesias, c. 400 BC (followed by Diodorus Siculus), alleged that the legendary Assyrian...
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BC texts of both Cleitarchus (a historian of Alexander the Great) and Ctesias of Cnidus. Diodorus ascribes the construction to a "Syrian king". He states...
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ancient inscriptions in different languages. The ancient Greek historians Ctesias and Plutarch noted that Cyrus was named from Kuros, the Sun, a concept...
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voyage from India Indica (Ctesias), a recording of the beliefs of the Persians about India by the classical Greek author Ctesias Indica (Megasthenes), his...
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(London), 1646. Reprinted 1672. All which [sc. John Mandevil's support of Ctesias's claims] may still be received in some acceptions of morality, and to a...
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has been described from blood samples from the plum-headed parakeet. Ctesias of Cnidus, a 5th-century BC Greek physician to the emperor Artaxerxes II...
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