Episode T13 – Eunus

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Synopsis: A Syrian man from Apamea, enslaved on the island of Sicily, renames himself King Antiochus and launches the first large-scale slave rebellion against the Roman Republic. “The Sicilians, through the enjoyment of a long peace, grew very rich, and brought up an abundance of slaves; who being driven in droves like so many herds of cattle from the different places where they were bred and brought up, were branded with certain marks burned on their bodies….their masters were very strict and severe with them, and took no care to provide either necessary food or clothing for them, so that most of them were forced to rob and steal to get these necessities; so that all places were full of slaughters and murders.” – Diodorus Siculus, The Historical Library, Book 34 “Then they made Eunus king, not for his valor or skill in warfare, but on account of his extraordinary tricks, and because he was made the leader and author of the defection…At length, putting a diadem upon his head and graced with all the emblems of royalty, he caused his wife, who was also a Syrian from the same city, to be called queen, and chose such as he judged to be the most prudent to be his councillors.” – Diodorus Siculus, The Historical Library, Book 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On BBC A
0:02.0	I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me
0:06.0	I'm pregnant
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0:10.0	I've been all my electricity that's all
0:12.0	don't think I should even be in here.
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0:43.0	Thanks again for listening. He sacrificed a bull and a goat, and an eagle of Zeus swept down from the sky and picked up the
1:06.8	heads of the animals.
1:09.4	It then flew off, leading him to the sacred site where he should found the new city.
1:16.4	The location was a small peninsula enclosed by a loop in the Arante's River and nearby lakes and marshes. the wife, the daughter of a powerful warlord from Central Asia. This was the foundation myth of the Syrian
1:39.3	city of Apamea, built by King Salukas the first for his Sogdian wife,
1:45.0	Pama.
1:46.0	And considering an eagle also played a role in the sighting of Salusha Piaia,
1:51.9	Antioch, and Laudicea, it can probably be taken with a grain of salt.
1:58.0	Either way, Appamea was located at a strategic crossroads for eastern commerce. It was also an important
2:06.3	military base, holding 30,000 mayors, 300 stallions, and for one glorious period 500 Indian War elephants.
2:17.0	Over the long arc of solucid history the city remained important and prosperous.
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