Editing Ctesias (section)

==Historical events==
[[File:Adrien Guignet - Retreat of the ten thousand.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Ctesias attended to [[Artaxerxes II]] at the [[Battle of Cunaxa]] in 401 BC (depiction of the battle by Jean Adrien Guignet)]]
Ctesias, who lived in the fifth century BC, was physician to the Achaemenid king, [[Artaxerxes II of Persia|Artaxerxes II]], whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother [[Cyrus the Younger]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Ctesias|volume=7|page=594}}</ref> Ctesias was part of the entourage of King Artaxerxes at the [[Battle of Cunaxa]] (401 BC) against Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries called the [[Ten Thousand]], when Ctesias provided medical assistance to the king by treating his flesh wound.<ref>"The first certain event related to Ctesias is his medical assistance to the king during the battle of Cunaxa and his treatment of his flesh wound (Plut. Art. 11.3) in 401 BCE" in {{cite book |last1=Dąbrowa |first1=Edward |title=The Greek World in the 4th and 3rd Centuries BC: Electrum vol. 19 |date=2014 |publisher=Wydawnictwo UJ |isbn=9788323388197 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KIbOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |language=en}}</ref> He reportedly was involved in negotiations with the Greeks after the battle, and also helped their Spartan general [[Clearchus of Sparta|Clearchus]] before his execution at the royal court at Babylon.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dąbrowa |first1=Edward |title=The Greek World in the 4th and 3rd Centuries BC: Electrum vol. 19 |date=2014 |publisher=Wydawnictwo UJ |isbn=9788323388197 |pages=13–14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KIbOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |language=en}}</ref>

Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers and on the Persian revenues, as well as an account of India, ''[[Indica (Ctesias)|Indica]]'' ({{langx|grc|Ἰνδικά|label=none}}), and of a history of [[Assyria]] and [[History of Persia|Persia]] in 23 books, ''Persica'' ({{langx|grc|Περσικά|label=none}}), drawn from documents in the Persian Royal Archives, written in opposition to [[Herodotus]], in the [[Ionic Greek|Ionic dialect]].<ref name="EB1911"/>