Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Ctesias (a); 3. Ctesias (b); 4. Deinon (a); 5. Deinon (b); 6. Heracleides, Excursus: Charon of Lampsacus; 7. Conclusions; Appendix I: Two Notes on the Cypriot War; Appendix II: Plutarch, the Persica and the Regum et Imperatorum Apophthegmata; Bibliography; Index