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Babylon and Seleucia = capitals of Assyria (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Designation of the Seleucid Empire as Syria/Assyria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.04 Designation of the Seleucid Empire as Syria/Assyria
Education and transmission of knowledge
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.05 Education and transmission of knowledge
Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.02 Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
Seleucia as capital of Assyria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.04 Designation of the Seleucid Empire as Syria/Assyria
12.02.03.04.01 Seleucia as capital of Assyria

Keywords
Babylonia
Seleucid Empire

Period
1st century BCE
1st century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
The Seleucid Empire (Syria and Mesopotamia) is known generally as Babylonia according to Strabo.

Strabo 16.1.16:
In ancient times Babylon was the metropolis of Assyria; but now Seleuceia is the metropolis … And as we call the country Babylonia, so also we call the men from there Babylonians, that is, not after the city, but after the country; but we do not call men after Seleuceia, if they are from there, as, for example, Diogenes the Stoic philosopher [who was known as Diogenes the Babylonian; see Cicero, De Nat. Deorum 1.15].

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Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.15
Strabo 16.1.16

Simo Parpola

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