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THE CHALDEAN MAGI
According to Ancient Sources
Ammianus Marcellinus,
Apuleius,
Arnobius,
Augustine,
Bardasenes,
Callisthenes,
Chaldean Oracles,
Clement of Alexandria,
Commodian,
Cosmas of Jerusalem,
Ctesias,
Damascius,
Derveni Papyrus,
Dio Chrysostom
Diodorus of Sicily,
Diogenes Laertes,
Dionysius the Areopagite,
Dion Cassius,
Eudemus of Rhodes,
Duris,
Eunapius,
Eusebius,
Firmicus Maternus,
Gregory Nazianzus,
Herodotus,
Himerius,
Hippolytus,
Iamblichus,
Jerome,
Julian the Emperor,
Justin Martyr,
Lactantius Placidus,
Lampridius,
Lucian,
Martian,
Mithras Liturgy
Nonnus,
Nonnus the Mythographer,
Origen,
Philo of Alexandria,
Philo of Byblos,
Pliny the Elder,
Plutarch,
Porphyry,
Proclus,
Prudentius,
Quintus Curtius,
Saint Basil,
Socrates,
Sozomen,
Strabo,
Tertullian,
Xenophon,
Zosimus of Panopolis,
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ARYAN MYTH
BABYLON
ANCIENT GREECE
HELLENISTIC AGE
MUSLIM WORLD
HOLY GRAIL
MODERN EUROPE
MY BILBLIOGRAPHY
CHALDEAN MAGI
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Ctesias was a Greek of Cnidus in Caria, who practiced medicine for many years in Persia under Artaxerxes Mnemon, and wrote a history of Persia in twenty-three books down to the year 398 BC. The following preserves information provided by transmitted by Athenaeus of Naucratis, who lived in Rome towards the end of the second century AD.
Ctesias.
Ctesias reports that among the Indians it was not lawful for the king to drink to excess. Among the Persians however the king was permitted to be intoxicated on the one day on which sacrifice was offered to Mithras.
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