• ISBN 978-0-06-087414-8. Ed., trad. et commentaire par Dominique Lenfant, Ctésias de Cnide. La Perse. L'Inde. Autres fragments, Collection Budé, Belles Lettres...
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  • (Ancient Greek: Ἰνδικά Indika) is a book by the classical Greek physician Ctesias purporting to describe the Indian subcontinent. Written in the fifth century...
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  • divided in 23 books, on Assyrian, Median and Persian history written by Ctesias of Cnidus, a physician at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II (404–358...
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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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    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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    (Old Persian: *Tanūvazraka; Ancient Greek: Τανυοξάρκης Tanuoxárkēs) by Ctesias, was a son of Cyrus the Great and the younger brother of Cambyses II, both...
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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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    Ctesias serra, commonly known as the cobweb beetle, is a species of beetle native to England in the family Dermestidae. The common name relates to the...
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    little recognition of his kingdom are known primarily from the writings of Ctesias; who is known to be unreliable. He was reportedly an illegitimate son of...
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  • René. (1959) Photius: La Bibliothèque, Paris Lenfant, Dominique. (2004) Ctésias. La Perse. L’Inde. Autres fragments. Paris Godley, Alfred Denis (1921–24)...
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    خوردن; khordan); i.e., man-eater. The ultimate source of manticore was Ctesias, Greek physician of the Persian court during the Achaemenid dynasty, and...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    inscription of Behistun, works by later Greek authors such as Herodotus and Ctesias, and some biblical texts. Before the archaeological discoveries of Assyrian...
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    24 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine Ctesias, Persica 11 Archived 2 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Ctesias, Persica 15 Archived 2 April 2017 at the...
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    allegorical significance in contemporary Roman politics. Pliny the Elder cited Ctesias and quoted Photius identifying the Chimera with an area of permanent gas...
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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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    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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    Empire. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Greek historian Ctesias mentioned that Darius I's grave was in a cliff face that could be reached...
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    especially by Herodotus, and second-hand descriptions, citing the work of Ctesias and Berossus—present an incomplete and sometimes contradictory picture...
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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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    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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    accounts of Zoroaster, referred usually as Persian or Perso-Median Zoroaster; Ctesias located him in Bactria, Diodorus Siculus placed him among Ariaspai (in...
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    mentioned in the few other early sources covering the period, especially Ctesias. Tomyris became a fairly popular subject in European art and literature...
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    among the eggs in their nest. Pliny placed the griffins in Æthiopia, and Ctesias (5th century BC) in greater India. Scholars have observed that legends...
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    book satirizing the clearly unrealistic travelogues/adventures written by Ctesias, Iambulus, and Homer. He states that he was surprised they expected people...
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