Greek philology

Pagliaro, le etimologie «prescientifiche» e un toponimo in Ctesia di Cnido

This paper deals with two obscure passages respectively in Diodorus Siculus (17, 71, 7) and in a fragment of the Greek physician Ctesias of Cnidus (fr. 13, 19 Lenfant), where the royal Achaemenid tombs are accurately described. The name of the mountain, where the graves of Darius and other Persian kings of kings were buried, has been variously transmitted. According to Diodorus the site was called “the royal mountain” (Gr. ὄρος βασιλικόν); in Ctesias the oronym was “the double mountain” (Gr. δισσὸν ὄρος).

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