biography
pronunciation:
[tesias]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (5th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Greek historian and physician. He was physician to Artaxerxes II Mnemon of Persia, and accompanied him in the expedition against his rebellious brother Cyrus (401 BC). He wrote a history of Persia in 23 books, Persika, of which only fragments remain. |
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