Research Catalog

Title

Ctesias : on India, and fragments of his minor works : introduction, translation and commentary / by Andrew Nichols.

Author

Ctesias

Publication

London : Bristol Classical, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nichols, Andrew G.
• Nichols, Andrew, 1977-

Description

189 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire. His Indika (On India) was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author and helped shape the Greek view of India. This book is a full English translation and commentary on all the extant fragments of the Indika, along with fragments of Ctesia's minor works never before translated into English.

Alternative Title

• On India
• Ctesias on India

Subject

• Ctesias > Travel > India
• Ctesias
• India > Description and travel > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction. History of the text ; Life of Ctesias ; The Indika ; Ctesias' sources ; Influence of the work ; Minor works ; Notes -- The Indika -- Other works. On the tributes of Asia ; Periodos (Periegesis, Periploi) ; Fragments of unknown works ; Medical treatises ; Fragments of doubtful authenticity ; False fragments ; On mountains ; On rivers ; Interpolations -- Commentary. The Indika ; Other works.

ISBN

• 9781853997426 (pbk.)
• 1853997420 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 751524264
• SCSB-11527387

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library