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Ctesias - Persian Historian Ctesias

Ctesias was a Persian historian and physician at the court of King Artaxerxes II Mnemon from 404 to 398/397.
Ctesias - Physician and Persian Historian - Ctesias
Ctesias was a fifth Century B.C. Carian physician and historian. Ctesias traveled to Persia and wrote a history that contradicts Herodotus.

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