TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waters,Matthew W.
TI  - Ctesias' Persica and its Near Eastern context
T2  - Wisconsin studies in classics
SN  - 9780299310936
AV  - PA3948.C9 W38 2017eb
U1  - 935/.05 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Madison, Wisconsin
PB  - The University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Ctesias.
KW  - Persica (Ctesias)
KW  - fast
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Civilization
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Iran
KW  - History
KW  - To 640
KW  - Sources
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 651
KW  - Historiographie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-149) and indexes; The eunuch in-between -- Semiramis, queen of battle -- A different kind of education for Cyrus -- The inverted hero's many faces
N2  - 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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