Ctesias' Persian History: Introduction, text, and translation
- ISBN-10
- 394182001X
- ISBN-13
- 9783941820012
- Category
- Assyria
- Pages
- 422
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wellem Verlag
- Authors
- Ctesias, Jan P. Stronk
Description
Minuscule writing used the writing material far more economically and thereby soon became the regular script for producing books (Wilson 1996, 66). Most works belonging to the curriculumweretranscribed and survived (at least fora while) ...
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