Ctesias: On India. Translation and Commentary (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Ctesias: On India. Translation and Commentary Ctesias: On India is one of the first western works on India, written in the fifth century BC. This full English translation provides a fascinating account of what was, at the time, the very edge of the known world.
Full description- Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
- Published: 22 September 2011
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: Prose: Non-fiction | Literary Essays | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Historiography | Asian History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9781853997426 ISBN 10: 1853997420
- Sales rank: 730,902
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Full description for Ctesias: On India. Translation and Commentary
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, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures as the unicorn and the martichora, along with real life subjects such as the parrot and the art of falconry. Confirming pre-existing conceptions of what were considered to be the edges of the earth, Ctesias' Indika helped shape the Greek view of India.
