Library Ctesias

Ctesias

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.

Translated by J. H. Freese (Photius); C. H. Oldfather (via Diodorus)

Photius epitome: English by J. H. Freese, The Library of Photius (SPCK, 1920), public domain, via tertullian.org. Assyrian narrative: see Diodorus Siculus, Library of History Book II (Oldfather), which follows Ctesias.

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