Apollodorus of Artemita

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Apollodorus of Artemita

Apollodorus of Artemita was a Greek writer of the 1st century BCE.

Apollodorus wrote a history of the Parthia

Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
n Empire (Parthika) in at least four books. He is quoted by Strabo

Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
and Athenaeus

Athenaeus

Athenaeus , of Naucratis in Egypt, Greeks rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century A.D. The Suda only tells us that he lived in the times of Marcus ; but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus shows that he survived that emperor....
. Strabo stated that he was very reliable. Apollodorus seems to have used the archives of Artemita and Seleucia on the Tigris

Seleucia on the Tigris

Seleucia was one of the great cities of the world during Hellenistic and Roman Empire times. It stood in Mesopotamia, on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the smaller town of Opis ....
for his work. Some information on Greco-Bactrians are preserved in Strabo's work:

"The Greeks who caused Bactria
Bactria

Bactria is a historical region of Greater Iran. Known by the ancient Greeks as "Bactriana" the region is located between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya ; in later times, the region became known as Tokharistan. The name of the region has survived to present time in the name of Afghan province "Balkh"....
to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana
Ariana

Arianna is a feminine name that comes from the italian root word "aria" which means song. . See Ariana .Other uses of Ariana include:...
, but also of India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
--by Menander
Menander I

Menander I Soter "The Saviour" was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in northern India and present-day Pakistan from either 165 BC or 155 BC to 130 BC ....
in particular (at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis
Hypanis

Hypanis may refer to* The Ancient Greek name of the Southern Buh river in Southern Ukraine* The Ancient Greek name of the Kuban River in Southern Russia....
towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaus), for some were subdued by him personally and others by Demetrius
Demetrius I of Bactria

Demetrius I or was a Buddhist Greco-Bactrian king . He was the son of Euthydemus I and succeeded him around 200 BC, after which he conquered extensive areas in what now is eastern Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan thus creating an Indo-Greek kingdom far from Hellenistic Greece....
, the son of Euthydemus
Euthydemus I

Euthydemus I was allegedly a native of Magnesia and possible Satrap of Sogdiana, who overturned the dynasty of Diodotus of Bactria and became a Greco-Bactrian king in about 230 BCE according to Polybius....
the king of the Bactrians; and they took possession, not only of Patalena
Patalena

In Roman mythology, Patalena was a goddess of flowers.See also*Flora ...
, but also, on the rest of the coast, of what is called the kingdom of Saraostus and Sigerdis.

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Apollodorus of Artemita was a Greek writer of the 1st century BCE.

Apollodorus wrote a history of the Parthia
Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
n Empire (Parthika) in at least four books. He is quoted by Strabo
Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
and Athenaeus
Athenaeus

Athenaeus , of Naucratis in Egypt, Greeks rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century A.D. The Suda only tells us that he lived in the times of Marcus ; but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus shows that he survived that emperor....
. Strabo stated that he was very reliable. Apollodorus seems to have used the archives of Artemita and Seleucia on the Tigris
Seleucia on the Tigris

Seleucia was one of the great cities of the world during Hellenistic and Roman Empire times. It stood in Mesopotamia, on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the smaller town of Opis ....
for his work. Some information on Greco-Bactrians are preserved in Strabo's work:

"The Greeks who caused Bactria
Bactria

Bactria is a historical region of Greater Iran. Known by the ancient Greeks as "Bactriana" the region is located between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya ; in later times, the region became known as Tokharistan. The name of the region has survived to present time in the name of Afghan province "Balkh"....
to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Ariana
Ariana

Arianna is a feminine name that comes from the italian root word "aria" which means song. . See Ariana .Other uses of Ariana include:...
, but also of India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
--by Menander
Menander I

Menander I Soter "The Saviour" was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in northern India and present-day Pakistan from either 165 BC or 155 BC to 130 BC ....
in particular (at least if he actually crossed the Hypanis
Hypanis

Hypanis may refer to* The Ancient Greek name of the Southern Buh river in Southern Ukraine* The Ancient Greek name of the Kuban River in Southern Russia....
towards the east and advanced as far as the Imaus), for some were subdued by him personally and others by Demetrius
Demetrius I of Bactria

Demetrius I or was a Buddhist Greco-Bactrian king . He was the son of Euthydemus I and succeeded him around 200 BC, after which he conquered extensive areas in what now is eastern Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan thus creating an Indo-Greek kingdom far from Hellenistic Greece....
, the son of Euthydemus
Euthydemus I

Euthydemus I was allegedly a native of Magnesia and possible Satrap of Sogdiana, who overturned the dynasty of Diodotus of Bactria and became a Greco-Bactrian king in about 230 BCE according to Polybius....
the king of the Bactrians; and they took possession, not only of Patalena
Patalena

In Roman mythology, Patalena was a goddess of flowers.See also*Flora ...
, but also, on the rest of the coast, of what is called the kingdom of Saraostus and Sigerdis. In short, Apollodorus says that Bactriana is the ornament of Ariana as a whole; and, more than that, they extended their empire even as far as the Seres
Seres

Seres was the ancient Greek language and Latin name for the inhabitants of the northwestern part of modern China, . It meant "of silk," or people of the "land where silk comes from." The country of the Seres was Serica....
and the Phryni." (Strabo, Geographia, )

He is also quoted for his general geographical knowledge of Central Asia:

"Accordingly, if the distance from Hyrcania to Artemita in Babylonia
Babylonia

Babylonia was a state in Lower Mesopotamia , Babylon as its franklin. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad....
is eight thousand stadia, as is stated by Apollodorus of Artemita, and the distance from there to the mouth of the Persian Sea another eight thousand, and again eight thousand, or a little less, to the places that lie on the same parallel as the extremities of Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
, there would remain of the above-mentioned breadth of the inhabited world the distance which I have already given,14 from the recess of the Hyrcanian Sea to the mouth of that sea" (Strabo, Geographia, )