Author: Matt Waters
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299310943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia from around 400 BCE. It was written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes II. In this volume, Matt Waters offers a fresh interdisciplinary analysis of the text. 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. 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.
Ctesias’ Persica in Its Near Eastern Context
Author: Matt Waters
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299310943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia from around 400 BCE. It was written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes II. In this volume, Matt Waters offers a fresh interdisciplinary analysis of the text. 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. 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.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299310943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia from around 400 BCE. It was written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes II. In this volume, Matt Waters offers a fresh interdisciplinary analysis of the text. 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. 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.
Ctesias’ Persica in Its Near Eastern Context
Author: Matt Waters
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299310906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A modern historian sheds new light on an ancient Greek history of Persia.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299310906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A modern historian sheds new light on an ancient Greek history of Persia.
Plutarch and the Persica
Author: Eran Almagor
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074864556X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Explores the experiences spectators have when they watch a film collectively in a cinema.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074864556X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Explores the experiences spectators have when they watch a film collectively in a cinema.
Carotenoid Oxygenases from Camellia Sinensis, Osmanthus Fragrans and Prunus Persica Nucipersica
Author: Susanne Baldermann
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3867275238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3867275238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The Lilac
Author: Susan Delano McKelvey
Publisher:
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Category : Lilacs
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Category : Lilacs
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Ctesias' 'History of Persia'
Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134220464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of Persian court life and access to the gossip and scandal surrounding Persian history and court politics, past and present. His History of Persia was completed at a time when the Greeks were fascinated by Persia and seems very much to cater to contemporary interest in Persian wealth and opulence, powerful Persian women, the institution of the harem, kings and queens, eunuchs and secret plots. Presented here in English translation for the first time with commentaries, Ctesias offers a fascinating insight into Persia in the fifth century BC.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134220464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of Persian court life and access to the gossip and scandal surrounding Persian history and court politics, past and present. His History of Persia was completed at a time when the Greeks were fascinated by Persia and seems very much to cater to contemporary interest in Persian wealth and opulence, powerful Persian women, the institution of the harem, kings and queens, eunuchs and secret plots. Presented here in English translation for the first time with commentaries, Ctesias offers a fascinating insight into Persia in the fifth century BC.
Persica
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Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Journal of the Arnold Arboretum
Author: Arnold Arboretum
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Category : Arboretums
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Arboretums
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Plantae Wilsonianae
Author: Charles Sprague Sargent
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Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Plantae Wilsonianae
Author: Ernest Henry Wilson
Publisher:
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Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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