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Ctesias

Ctesias of Cnidus (late 5th–early 4th century BC). Greek physician at the Persian court; author of the lost Persica and Indica.

• Persica (Fragments) c. 400–390 BC Surviving fragments and epitomes of Ctesias’s Persica. The Assyrian story of Ninus and Semiramis is preserved mainly through Diodorus; Photius summarizes the later books.