J M Bigwood
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1428355 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J M Bigwood |
| NOMBRES | J M |
| APELLIDO | Bigwood |
| FIRMA | BIGWOOD J M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Ctesias' Parrot
Tall tales abound in Ctesias' Indica , as scholars have not hesitated to emphasize, heaping ridicule on the author's enthusiasm for the fantastic and on his apparent lack of regard for the truth. However, by no means everything in the work is absurd or wrong, and marvels too are no surprise. After all, as a resident of the Persian court for a number of years at the end of the fifth century B.C., Ctesias had seen items from India which would have …
The Historical Method of Herodotus
Repetition and Variation in the Short Stories of Herodotus
Ctesias' "Indica" and Photius
TWENTIETH-CENTURY scholars have on the whole looked with little favour on the Indica of Artaxerxes' physician Ctesias, the first Greek book to be wholly devoted to the exotic land of India.' In general the work is dismissed with a few caustic words ridiculing it for its absurd tales or castigating it for its apparently incoherent organisation. Remarkably little attention, however, has been paid to the question of what we really know of it. After …
"POxy" 2330 and Ctesias
W HEN A FRAGMENT OF PAPYRUS bearing 28 short lines of Ctesias' Persica came to light in Oxyrhynchus, this was a discovery of some interest.' Although the summaries and allusions of later authors provide a great deal of information about Ctesias' history, very few of his actual words survive. Hence the fragment has a significant contribution to make to what we know of the language and style of this work, as well as to our appreciation of its gener…
Herodotus
Diodorus and Ctesias
SOME RECENT DISCUSSIONS OF DIODORUS are much more generous in their attitude to him than has generally been the case.' They draw attention to the enormous difficulties facing any author who undertakes to write a universal history based on the works of a series of different historians. Instead of regarding him as a mere copyist, incapable of modifying a source in any way at all, they point out that he has his own interests and even his own style, …
Sparta and Persia
Ctesias as Historian of the Persian Wars
THE BATTLE OF PLATAEA according to the history of Ctesias of Cnidus preceded the battle of Salamis. This egregious blunder, which is certainly an error of the historian, not of Photius, to whom we are indebted for a summary of this part of the work, is a famous one.' Yet despite it Ctesias' version of the Persian Wars did not fail to impress certain authors of the ancient world, although most avoided his grosser errors. Nor have some modern schol…
Ctesias' Account of the Revolt of Inarus
The Greek Accounts of Eastern History
Ctesias as Historian of the Persian Wars
THE BATTLE OF PLATAEA according to the history of Ctesias of Cnidus preceded the battle of Salamis. This egregious blunder, which is certainly an error of the historian, not of Photius, to whom we are indebted for a summary of this part of the work, is a famous one.' Yet despite it Ctesias' version of the Persian Wars did not fail to impress certain authors of the ancient world, although most avoided his grosser errors. Nor have some modern schol…
The Greek Accounts of Eastern History
Ctesias' "Indica" and Photius
TWENTIETH-CENTURY scholars have on the whole looked with little favour on the Indica of Artaxerxes' physician Ctesias, the first Greek book to be wholly devoted to the exotic land of India.' In general the work is dismissed with a few caustic words ridiculing it for its absurd tales or castigating it for its apparently incoherent organisation. Remarkably little attention, however, has been paid to the question of what we really know of it. After …
Ctesias' Account of the Revolt of Inarus
Ctesias' Parrot
Tall tales abound in Ctesias' Indica , as scholars have not hesitated to emphasize, heaping ridicule on the author's enthusiasm for the fantastic and on his apparent lack of regard for the truth. However, by no means everything in the work is absurd or wrong, and marvels too are no surprise. After all, as a resident of the Persian court for a number of years at the end of the fifth century B.C., Ctesias had seen items from India which would have …
The Greek Accounts of Eastern History
Ctesias' Account of the Revolt of Inarus
Sparta and Persia
Ctesias as Historian of the Persian Wars
THE BATTLE OF PLATAEA according to the history of Ctesias of Cnidus preceded the battle of Salamis. This egregious blunder, which is certainly an error of the historian, not of Photius, to whom we are indebted for a summary of this part of the work, is a famous one.' Yet despite it Ctesias' version of the Persian Wars did not fail to impress certain authors of the ancient world, although most avoided his grosser errors. Nor have some modern schol…
Diodorus and Ctesias
SOME RECENT DISCUSSIONS OF DIODORUS are much more generous in their attitude to him than has generally been the case.' They draw attention to the enormous difficulties facing any author who undertakes to write a universal history based on the works of a series of different historians. Instead of regarding him as a mere copyist, incapable of modifying a source in any way at all, they point out that he has his own interests and even his own style, …
Herodotus
"POxy" 2330 and Ctesias
W HEN A FRAGMENT OF PAPYRUS bearing 28 short lines of Ctesias' Persica came to light in Oxyrhynchus, this was a discovery of some interest.' Although the summaries and allusions of later authors provide a great deal of information about Ctesias' history, very few of his actual words survive. Hence the fragment has a significant contribution to make to what we know of the language and style of this work, as well as to our appreciation of its gener…
Repetition and Variation in the Short Stories of Herodotus
Ctesias' "Indica" and Photius
TWENTIETH-CENTURY scholars have on the whole looked with little favour on the Indica of Artaxerxes' physician Ctesias, the first Greek book to be wholly devoted to the exotic land of India.' In general the work is dismissed with a few caustic words ridiculing it for its absurd tales or castigating it for its apparently incoherent organisation. Remarkably little attention, however, has been paid to the question of what we really know of it. After …
The Historical Method of Herodotus
Ctesias' Parrot
Tall tales abound in Ctesias' Indica , as scholars have not hesitated to emphasize, heaping ridicule on the author's enthusiasm for the fantastic and on his apparent lack of regard for the truth. However, by no means everything in the work is absurd or wrong, and marvels too are no surprise. After all, as a resident of the Persian court for a number of years at the end of the fifth century B.C., Ctesias had seen items from India which would have …
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