- Sittacene
Sittacene was an ancient region of
Babylonia andAssyria situated about the main city ofSittace . Pliny in his "Natural History", Book 6, §§ 205-206, places Sittacene betweenChalonitis ,Persis andMesene and also betweenArbelitis andPalestine (or that it also bore those names, "id.", vi. 27. s. 31). Besides Sittace,Sabata , and Antiochia are identified as important cities. The district of Sittacene appears to have been called in later times Apolloniatis (Strabo xi. p. 524), and which adjoined the province ofSusis (xv. p. 732). It is probably the same country which Curtius calls Satrapene (v. 2).Alexander the Great 's forces marched through Sittacene on their way fromBabylon toSusa . Curtius andDiodorus place Alexander's major reorganization of his forces between their reinforcement at Babylon and the campaign against Susa in Sittacene. (Curt. v. 1. 40-42, v. 2. 1-7; Diod. xvii. 65) [Arrian places these at Susa (iii. 16. 10)] A depiction of the games which were held to boost morale became the subject of a famous painting in the collection of theGetty Museum . [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=5748]Under
Hellenistic domination,Boeotia n settlers were placed in Sittacene. (Diod. xvii 110).Notes
References
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External links
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/pliny6.html Pliny's Natural History]
* [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0323.html Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer]
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