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Ctesias (/ˈtiːʒəs/ TEE-zhəs;
Ancient Gr****: Κτησίᾱς, romanized: Ktēsíās; fl. 5th
century BC), also
known as
Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Gr****
physician and...
- (Old Persian: *Tanūvazraka;
Ancient Gr****: Τανυοξάρκης Tanuoxárkēs) by
Ctesias, was a son of
Cyrus the
Great and the
younger brother of
Cambyses II, both...
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divided in 23 books, on ****yrian,
Median and
Persian history written by
Ctesias of Cnidus, a
physician at the
court of the
Persian king
Artaxerxes II (404–358...
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little recognition of his
kingdom are
known primarily from the
writings of
Ctesias; who is
known to be unreliable. He was
reportedly an
illegitimate son of...
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subspecies are recognised:
Ancema ctesia ctesia (Sikkim, ****am, Thailand,
Peninsular Malaya,
possibly Bhutan and Burma)
Ancema ctesia agalla (Fruhstorfer, 1912)...
- He is an
obscure historical figure known primarily from the
writings of
Ctesias. He was the only
legitimate son of
Artaxerxes I and Damaspia, and is known...
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writer of Antiquity,
besides Xenophon, was
present at the
Battle of Cunaxa.
Ctesias, a
native of Caria,
which belonged to the
Achaemenid Empire at the time...
- and Persians,
according to
records of
historians Herodotus,
Berossus and
Ctesias.
According to Berossus,
Nebuchadnezzar married Amytis,
daughter of Astyages...
- silk. The
first surviving European accounts of the
Seres are
those in
Ctesias's 5th-century BC Indica,
where he
calls them "a
people of
portentous stature...
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genus Ctesias are
currently known:
Subgenus Ctesias:
Ctesias dusmae Beal, 1960
Ctesias hebei Háva, 2004
Ctesias orientalis Zhantiev, 1988
Ctesias serra...
