Identifier: studentsmanualof00smit (find matches)
Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Mons Bagistanus, Rock of Behistun, Ctesias furnishes uswith a list of kingspreceding Cyius, thefirst of whom, namedArbaces, would havecommenced his reignabout B.C. 875: Hero-dotus, on the otherhand, notices only four,of whom the fii*st,Deioces, beganhis reignB.C. 708, his successorsbeing Phraortes (who
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Sculptures on Rock of Behistun. by planting colonies ofcaptive Israelites in thecountry ^2 Kings xvii,6). The attempt doesnot appear to have suc-ceeded ; for the inscrip-tions of Sennacheriband Esai-haddon de-scribe it as a countrythat had never beensubdued by their pre-decessoiS. During thewhole of this periodMedia probably retain-ed its own rulers, whoacknowledged the su-premacy of Assyria bythe occasional paymentof tribitte. The au-thentic history of Me- Chap. XUI. ARIAXA — CARMAXIA — PAllTHIA. 241 book of Tobit ; xiv. 15). Cyaxares was sucaeeded by Astyages, B.C. 59-i,who led an uneventful life until the invasion of Cyrus, B.C. 505, whenMedifi was absorbed in the Persian empire. § 7. ly. Ai-iiAXA.—Under the collective name of Ariana theprovinces in the eastern part of the plateau of Iran were included,viz. Gedrosia, Drangiana, Arachosia, the mountain-district ofParopamisus, Aria, Parthia, and Carmania. The title was origin-ally an ethnological one, expressive of the distric

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