Excerpt from A Study of Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes: With Especial Reference to the Sources, for the Acquisition of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy From Leipzig University, a Dissertation In the proper place I will attempt to account for the fact that Plutarch's narration of the battle and its imme diate consequences at the Persian court is almost entirely from Ctesias. The account of the battle seems to me to throw light upon the character of Ctesias as a historian. As the discovery of the cuneiform inscriptions ...
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Excerpt from A Study of Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes: With Especial Reference to the Sources, for the Acquisition of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy From Leipzig University, a Dissertation In the proper place I will attempt to account for the fact that Plutarch's narration of the battle and its imme diate consequences at the Persian court is almost entirely from Ctesias. The account of the battle seems to me to throw light upon the character of Ctesias as a historian. As the discovery of the cuneiform inscriptions prove Hero dotus to have been nearly always right, while Ctesias must have intended wilfully to deceive; so here a close compar ison with Xenophon's masterly description of the battle of Cunaxa leaves no doubt in my mind that Ctesias was guilty of great perversion of facts, in order to give a dramatic account of the fall of Cyrus. I have therefore devoted the second part of this dissertation to a consideration of the different accounts of the battle, taking issue mainly with Dr. Mwel in his two interesting articles in Philolo gus xxxlv. Without further introduction I proceed now to the consideration of the different sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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