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Cnidus in Carla, See also:Greek physician and historian, flourished in the 5th See also:century B.C. In See also:early See also:life he was physician to See also:Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied (401) on his expedition against his See also:brother See also:Cyrus the Younger. Ctesias was the author of See also:treatises on See also:rivers, and on the See also:Persian revenues, of an See also:account of See also:India (which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India), and of a See also:history of See also:Assyria and See also:Persia in 23 books, called Persica, written in opposition to See also:Herodotus in the Ionic See also:dialect, and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives. The first six books treated of the history of Assyria and See also:Babylon to the See also:foundation of the Persian See also:empire; the remaining seventeen went down to the See also:year 398. Of the two histories we possess abridgments by See also:Photius, and fragments are preserved in See also:Athenaeus, See also:Plutarch and especially Diodorus Siculus, whose second See also:book is mainly from Ctesias. As to the See also:worth of the Persica there has been much controversy, both in See also:ancient and See also: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's Herodotus, i. 71-74; also the edition of the fragments of the Persica by J. See also:Gilmore (1888, with introduction and notes and See also:list of authorities).

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