CTESIAS  , of See also:

• CNIDUS (mod. Tekir)

Cnidus in Carla, See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek physician and historian, flourished in the 5th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . In See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• LIFE

life he was physician to See also:

• ARTAXERXES

Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied (401) on his expedition against his See also:

• BROTHER

brother See also:

• CYRUS
• CYRUS (Gr. KDpos; Pers. Kuru-sh; Babyl. Kurash; Hebr. Koresh)

Cyrus the Younger . Ctesias was the author of See also:

• TREATISES

treatises on See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers, and on the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian revenues, of an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India (which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India), and of a See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• ASSYRIA

Assyria and See also:

• PERSIA

Persia in 23 books, called Persica, written in opposition to See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus in the Ionic See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect, and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives . The first six books treated of the history of Assyria and See also:

• BABYLON (mod. Hillah)

Babylon to the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the Persian See also:

• EMPIRE

empire; the remaining seventeen went down to the See also:

• YEAR

year 398 . Of the two histories we possess abridgments by See also:

• PHOTIUS
• PHOTIUS (c. 82o-891)

Photius, and fragments are preserved in See also:

• ATHENAEUS

Athenaeus, See also:

• PLUTARCH
• PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

Plutarch and especially Diodorus Siculus, whose second See also:

• BOOK

book is mainly from Ctesias . As to the See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth of the Persica there has been much controversy, both in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient and See also:

• MODERN

modern times . Being based upon Persian authorities, it was naturally looked upon with suspicion by the Greeks and censured as untrustworthy . For an estimate of Ctesias as a historian see G . See also:

• RAWLINSON, GEORGE (1812-1902)
• RAWLINSON, RICHARD (169o-1755)
• RAWLINSON, SIR HENRY CRESWICKE (1810—1895)
• RAWLINSON, SIR ROBERT (1810—1898)

Rawlinson's Herodotus, i . 71-74; also the edition of the fragments of the Persica by J . See also:

• GILMORE, PATRICK SARSFIELD (1829-1892)

Gilmore (1888, with introduction and notes and See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of authorities) .