Ctesias in the Achaemenid Persia?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/144595/1_GraecoLatinaBrunensia_26-2021-2_15.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank" >https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/144595/1_GraecoLatinaBrunensia_26-2021-2_15.pdf?sequence=1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/GLB2021-2-13" target="_blank" >10.5817/GLB2021-2-13</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ctesias in the Achaemenid Persia?

Original language description

This paper focuses on the life and works of Ctesias of Cnidus, a Greek physician living at the Achaemenid court during the reign of Artaxerxes II. Ctesias was the author of the important work on Persian history, customs, and court life called Persica. He spent many years in the Achaemenid Empire and summarized his experience and studies in his seminal work. Persica was a very influential discourse on Persia in antiquity even though Ctesias had a notoriously poor reputation. The core of the problem is the veracity of Ctesias' account, his claims of the usage of Persian sources, and his life in the Achaemenid Empire in general. Our main goal is to find possible answers to the stories circulating about his life in the Achaemenid Empire. Later authors criticized Ctesias for telling lies and promoting himself in the books. We will discuss how legitimate their approach is and whether the reputation of Ctesias is deserved. The problem will be studied in three chapters. In the first part of the article, we will take a closer look at the life of Ctesias. We will study the possible reasons for his departure to Persia, how he later managed to work for the King, what occupation and position he held at the court, which places in the Achaemenid Empire he visited, and why he left the court. In the second part, we will focus on the sources of his works. Their nature and content varied greatly and influenced his writings differently. In the last part, we will focus on Ctesias' possible knowledge of one or more of the languages spoken at the court. Foreign words also appear in his works and the list of them will be a part of the article.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Graeco-Latina Brunensia

ISSN

1803-7402

e-ISSN

2336-4424

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

211-224

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85124181916