Ctesias

• Ctesias of Cnidus was a Greek Historian and Physician to the King of Persia, Artaxerxes Mnemon II (404-358 BCE).
• He travelled with the Persian King on his campaign against his brother Cyrus the Younger around 400 BCE.

Works

• ‘Indica’
  • a Work on India. (A later work on India by Megasthenes (350-290 BCE), was also called ‘Indica’.)
• ‘Persica’
  • a history of Persia and Assyria in 23 Books, written in opposition to Herodotus and allegedly based on the Persian Royal Archives.
• A Work on Persian Taxation
• A Work on Rivers.

Persepolis