elymais

Updated: June 5, 2025

The conquest of Media had brought the Parthians into contact with the rich country of Susiana or Elymais; and it was not long before Mithridates, having crushed the Hyrcanian revolt, again advanced westward, and invaded this important province.

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And being incited by these motives, he went in haste to Elymais, and assaulted it, and besieged it.

Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews

When these things were over he made excursions against adversaries on every side, he and his brothers Simon and Jonathan subduing in turn Idumæa, Gilead, Jazer, Tyre, and Ashdod. Antiochus died of a distemper which overtook him as he was fleeing from Elymais, from which he was driven during an attack upon its gates.

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He gathered men from Babylon, Orchoe, Susa, Elymais, Persia, and other neighboring regions, and entrusting them to an officer of high rank "the great and noble Asnapper" had them conveyed to Palestine and settled over the whole country, which until this time must have been somewhat thinly peopled.

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He himself was soon afterwards slain by the indignant inhabitants of Elymais at the head of the Persian gulf, on occasion of pillaging the temple of Bel, with the treasures of which he had sought to replenish his empty coffers. The Roman government, after having achieved the victory, had to arrange the affairs of Asia Minor and of Greece.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)