- Alternative names
- Sousa
- Alternative name
- 🌍 Cissia (alt. Sousa)
- Information
- city in Asia Minor, capital of Persian Empire
- Place of burial of
- 👤 Memnon
- Founded by
👤 Tithonos (s. of Laomedon) son of Laomedon, abducted by Eos
- Conquered by
👤 Memnon son of Eos and Tithonos, leader of the Ethiopian contingent at Troy
👤 Ninos (Babylonian) mythical king of Babylon
👤 Ariaios king of Arabia
- 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
- Pausanias Strabo Diodoros Ctesias of Cnidos Pausanias Strabo Diodoros, Library Ctesias of Cnidos, Persica Greek Early Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE) Middle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE) Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE) Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE) Geography Mythography & Historiography