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.
Offered here for the first time in over a century is a full English
translation and commentary on all the extant fragments of the
Indika, along with fragments of Ctesias minor works never before
translated into English.
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