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1. Ctesias
   (lived 4th century BC) Greek physician and historian. He was born in Cnidus in Asia Minor. He accompanied the expedition of the Persian commander Cyrus the Younger against his brother, the Persian king Artaxerxes II...
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2. Ctesias
   Greek physician and historian of Persia and India whose works were the only historical writings of his time based on official Persian sources. ... [2 related articles]
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3. Ctesias
   Ctesias (tē'shēus, tē'sēus) , fl. 400 B.C., Greek historian and physician of Cnidus. He lived many years in the Persian court. He tended Artaxerxes II when he was wounded in the battle of Cunaxa (401 B.C.). In 398 he was sent by the Persians as envoy to Evagoras and C...
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4. Ctesias
   Ctesias was a Greek historian of about 400 BC. He was contemporary with Xenophon and partly with Herodotus. He was a physician, and lived for seventeen years at the court of Persia. He wrote a History of Persia, of which little remains.
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5. Ctesias
   :For the beetle genus, see Ctesias (beetle). `Ctesias of Cnidus` (Κτησίας-->) was a Hellenic civilization|Greek physician and historian from Cnidus in Caria. Ctesias, who lived in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on h...
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