Ctesias' Persica in Its Near Eastern Context by Matt Waters
The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias around 400 BCE. Written for a Greek readership, the Persica influenced the development of both historiographic and literary traditions in Greece. It also, contends Matt Waters, is an essential but often misunderstood source for the history of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.-
Oedipus Rex
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Flinders Petrie
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Hellenistic Sculpture V. 1; Styles of Ca. 331-200 B.C.
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Hellenistic Sculpture II
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The Game of Death in Ancient Rome
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Agamemnon
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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
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Religion in Ancient Etruria
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The Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Shaping Ceremony
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The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic and Classical Periods
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Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina
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The Hellenistic Aesthetic
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Silenced Voices
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The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
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Repeat Performances
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Echoing Hylas
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Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy
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The Athenian Adonia in Context
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Ctesias' Persica and Its Near Eastern Context
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Women in Roman Republican Drama
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Insults in Classical Athens
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Reset in Stone
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In the Flesh
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The Gods of the Greeks
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The Archaeology of the Olympics
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The Codrus Painter
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The Slave in Greece and Rome
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New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome
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Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba
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Satire and the Threat of Speech in Horace's "Satires" Bk. 1
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Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
“A pleasure to readWaters opens new paths in Ctesian studies, showing that the Persica is not merely the product of a Greek playing literary games, but may actually have its origins in genuine documents from the ancient Near East.”—Jan Pieter Stronk, editor and translator of Ctesias’ Persian History, Part 1
“This welcome study examines how the Greek author Ctesias processed an ancient Near Eastern and Iranian body of thought into a Greek world of ideas.”—Josef Wiesehöfer, Kiel University
"This book makes for a very enjoyable read. Waters’ academic diligence and expertise are closely matched by his ability to tell a story. His reassessment of Ctesias is a must-read for any doubters, or for anyone interested in the ancient Near East in general. Waters’ work should be a staple of any reading list for Achaemenid history." - Classics for All
“This welcome study examines how the Greek author Ctesias processed an ancient Near Eastern and Iranian body of thought into a Greek world of ideas.”—Josef Wiesehöfer, Kiel University
"This book makes for a very enjoyable read. Waters’ academic diligence and expertise are closely matched by his ability to tell a story. His reassessment of Ctesias is a must-read for any doubters, or for anyone interested in the ancient Near East in general. Waters’ work should be a staple of any reading list for Achaemenid history." - Classics for All
Matt Waters is a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE and A Survey of Neo-Elamite History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780299310905 |
| ISBN 10 | 0299310906 |
| Title | Ctesias' Persica in Its Near Eastern Context |
| Author | Matt Waters |
| Series | Wisconsin Studies In Classics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Year published | 2017-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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