| Description |
1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Series |
Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia |
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Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction; 2. Ctesias (a); 3. Ctesias (b); 4. Deinon (a); 5. Deinon (b); 6. Heracleides; 7. Conclusions; Appendix I: Two Notes on the Cypriot War; Appendix II: Plutarch, the Persica and the Regum et Imperatorum Apophthegmata |
| Summary |
This volume addresses two historical mysteries. The first is the content and character of the fourth century BCE Greek works on the Persian Achaemenid Empire treatises called the Persica. The second is the method of work of the second century CE biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea (CE 45-120) who used these works to compose his biographies, in particular the Life of the Persian king Artaxerxes. By dealing with both issues simultaneously, Almagor proposes a new way of approaching the two entangled problems, and offers a better understanding of both the portrayal of ancient Persia in the lost Persica works and the manner of their reception and adaptation nearly five hundred years later |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2018 |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Ctesias. Persica.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010161608
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Dinon, of Colophon. Fragments
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Heraclides, of Cyme. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001039881
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Heraclides, of Cyme fast |
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Persica (Ctesias) fast |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1474437184 |
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9781474437189 |
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9780748645565 |
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074864556X |
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147445352X |
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9781474453523 |
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