Ĭtesias was also later cited by Pausanias regarding the martichoras or androphagos of India.
But the name was mistranscribed as 'mantichoras' in a faulty copy of Aristotle, through whose works the notion of the manticore was perpetuated across Europe. Ctesias himself wrote that the martichora ( μαρτιχόρα) was its name in Persian, which translated into Greek as androphagon or anthropophagon ( ἀνθρωποφάγον), i.e., "man-eater". The ultimate source of manticore was Ctesias, Greek physician of the Persian court during the Achaemenid dynasty, and is based on the testimonies of his Persian-speaking informants who had travelled to India. The term "manticore" descends via Latin mantichora from Ancient Greek μαρτιχόρας (martikhórās) This in turn is a transliteration of an Old Persian compound word consisting of martīya 'man' and x uar- stem, 'to eat' (Mod. There are some accounts that the spines can be shot like arrows. It has the head of a human, the body of a lion and a tail of venomous spines similar to porcupine quills, while other depictions have it with the tail of a scorpion. The manticore or mantichore ( Latin: mantichōra reconstructed Old Persian: merthykhuwar Modern Persian: مردخوار mardkhor) is a Persian legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx that proliferated in western European medieval art as well. ― Johannes Jonston (1650) Historiae NaturalisĬopperplate engraving by Matthäus Merian.Ĭourtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology
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