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Ctesias' Persica and Its Near Eastern Context (Paperback)
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Ctesias' Persica and Its Near Eastern Context (Paperback)
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics
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The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written
by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the
Persian king Artaxerxes II around 400 bce. Written for a Greek
readership, the Persica influenced the development of both
historiographic and literary traditions in Greece. It also,
contends Matt Waters, is an essential but often misunderstood
source for the history of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Waters, as
a historian of Persia with command of Akkadian, Elamite, and Old
Persian languages in addition to Latin and Greek, offers a fresh
interdisciplinary analysis of the Persica. He shows in detail how
Ctesias' history, though written in a Greek literary style, was
infused with two millennia of Mesopotamian and Persian motifs,
legends, and traditions. This Hellenized version of Persian culture
was enormously influential in antiquity, shaping Greek stereotypes
of effeminate Persian monarchs, licentious and vengeful queens, and
conniving eunuchs. Waters' revealing study contributes
significantly to knowledge of ancient historiography, Persian
dynastic traditions and culture, and the influence of Near Eastern
texts and oral tradition on Greek literature.
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