CivilWar’s Reviews > Ctesias' 'History of Persia': Tales of the Orient > Status Update

Achaemenid epic part done... After all my Iranianist, Dumézilian and comparativist education, all of the fragments "of Ctesias", meaning exactly one (1) fragment of his of half-page length and a bunch of summaries citing Ctesias, hits entirely differently, entirely real, as Achaemenid "living" epic (and thus national State propaganda, of course - but Persian, rather Greek propaganda!) rather than "Orientalism".

God this intro is so much more based with all the Indo-European comparativist LORE. But it only makes the fact that Ctesias' narratives, NO LESS THAN HERODOTUS'S PERSIAN LOGOI MIND YOU, being Achaemenid epic written in Greek, by Greeks, verifiable by cross-referencing with both the Avesta, the Pahlavi texts and the Shahnameh, is just NOT AT ALL BROUGHT UP OR MENTIONED