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🌍 Susa (Persia)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11327075" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11327075">📖 Ctesias of Cnidos, Persica fr. 1</span>
  • Alternative names
    Sousa
    Information
    city in Asia Minor, capital of Persian Empire
    Alternative name
    🌍 Cissia (alt. Sousa)
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912936
    Place of burial of
    👤 Memnon
    Founded by
    👤 Tithonos (s. of Laomedon) son of Laomedon, abducted by EosStraboGeographyStraboGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)
    Conquered by
    👤 Memnon son of Eos and Tithonos, leader of the Ethiopian contingent at TroyPausaniasGeographyPausaniasGreekMiddle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)👤 Ninos (Babylonian) mythical king of BabylonDiodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyDiodorosGreekLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)Ctesias of Cnidos, PersicaGeographyCtesias of CnidosMiddle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)👤 Ariaios king of ArabiaDiodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyDiodorosGreekLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)Ctesias of Cnidos, PersicaGeographyCtesias of CnidosMiddle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)
    Relics preserved on site
    🏺 the Wooden Statue of Artemis (Taurian)
    Encompases
    🌍 Memnoneion (Susa)
    Related Entities
    👤 Memnon  👤 Tithonos (s. of Laomedon)  🌍 Troy (Troad)  🌍 Egypt  🌍 Caria (Asia Minor)  🌍 Lycia (SW Asia Minor)  🌍 Phrygia  👥 the Ethiopian Contingent at Troy (defenders)  🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians  🌍 Phoinicia  🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor)  🌍 Cilicia (SE Asia Minor)  🌍 Media  🏺 the Wooden Statue of Artemis (Taurian) 🌍 the Black Sea  🌍 the Troad  🌍 Assyria  🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia at Brauron (Attica) 🌍 Cappadocia (Pontos)  🌍 Susa (Persia)  🌍 Laodiceia (the Levant)  🌍 Pamphylia  🌍 Bithynia (Pontos)  🌍 Armenia  🌍 Persia  🌍 the Propontis  👤 Cissia  🌍 Cissia (alt. Sousa)  🌍 Memnoneion (Susa)  👤 Ninos (Babylonian)  👤 Ariaios  🌍 Babylonia  🌍 Coile Syria (Assyria)  🌍 the Caspian Gates
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 1.42.3 📖 Pausanias 3.16.7-3.16.11 📖 Pausanias 10.31.5-10.31.7 📖 Diodoros, Library 2.22.1-2.22.5 📖 Strabo 15.3.2 📖 Diodoros, Library 2.1.1-2.3.4
    Mentioned in Text
    Pausanias Strabo Diodoros, Library
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Ctesias of Cnidos, Persica fr. 1
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