Ctesias of Cnidus (in Caria), was a Hellenic civilization physician and historian, who flourished in the 5th century BC. In early life he was physician to Artaxerxes II, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger. Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India (which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India), and of a history of Assyria and History of Persia in 23 books, called ''Persica'', written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic Greek, and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives. The first six books treated of the history of Assyria and Babylon to the foundation of the Persian empire; the remaining seventeen went down to the year 398 BC. Of the two histories we possess abridgments by Photius, and fragments are preserved in Athenaeus, Plutarch and especially Diodorus Siculus, whose second book is mainly from Ctesias. As to the worth of the ''Persica'' there has been much controversy, both in ancient and modern times. Being based upon Persian authorities, it was naturally looked upon with suspicion by the Greeks and censured as untrustworthy. ==External links== * http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/ctesias/ctesias.htm Ancient Greek writers Ancient Greek physicians
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Ctesias of Cnidus (in Caria), was a Hellenic civilization physician and historian, who flourished in the 5th century BC. In early life he was physician to Artaxerxes II, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger. Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India (which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India), and of a history of Assyria and History of Persia in 23 books, called ''Persica'', written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic Greek, and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives. The first six books treated of the history of Assyria and Babylon to the foundation of the Persian empire; the remaining seventeen went down to the year 398 BC. Of the two histories we possess abridgments by Photius, and fragments are preserved in Athenaeus, Plutarch and especially Diodorus Siculus, whose second book is mainly from Ctesias. As to the worth of the ''Persica'' there has been much controversy, both in ancient and modern times. Being based upon Persian authorities, it was naturally looked upon with suspicion by the Greeks and censured as untrustworthy. ==External links== * http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/ctesias/ctesias.htm Ancient Greek writers Ancient Greek physicians
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