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