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12 Assyrian Identity
12 Assyrian Identity
12 Assyrian Identity
Keywords
hegemony
Period
1st century BCE
Achaemenid Empire
Roman Empire
Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars
Text
Diodorus Siculus 2.21.1: For it was under [Sardanapallos] that the empire [ἡγεμονία] of the Assyrians fell to the Medes, after it had lasted more than thirteen hundred years, as Ctesias of Cnidus says.