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ESTHER 07 - If You're Writing a Paper About Persia, Make Sure You Put Herodotus, Xenophon, and Ctesias in Your Bibliography or You're Going to Look Stupid

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The History of Artaxerxes II

The names of these three guys are going to come up a ton because they are eyewitnesses to the stuff that happened in the Persian Empire. The first one is a dude named TCs, it's C-T-E-S-I-A-S. This guy was born on the west coast of modern day Turkey and ended up getting roped into the life of Artaxerxes II. So this guy saw some stuff, but the history that we get from him is kind of a mishmash of sort of what you and I would imagine a history book to be like.

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