Episode T17 – The Sons of Grypus

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Synopsis: With Rome encroaching from the north and south, the sons of Grypus battle Parthians, usurpers and local powers to keep their hold on Syria. “As he lingered on the banks of the Euphrates, (Sulla) received a visit from Orobazus, a Parthian, who came as an ambassador from King Arsaces, although up to this time the two nations had held no intercourse with one another. This also is thought to have been part of Sulla’s great good fortune, that he should be the first Roman with whom the Parthians held conference when they wanted alliance and friendship.” – Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Sulla “Straton, the tyrant of Berroea…called in Zizon, the ruler of the Arabian tribes, and Mithridates Sinax, the ruler of the Parthians, who coming with a great number of forces, and besieging Demetrius (III) in his encampment, into which they had driven them with their arrows, compelled those that were with him by thirst to deliver up themselves. So they took a great many spoils out of that country, and Demetrius himself, whom they sent to Mithridates (II).” – Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XIII, Chapter 12 (Absolutely awesome and super-useful) map of Syria and surrounding territories c. 95 BC https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/95BC.png Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.2	And if you can't travel yourself, at least you can imagine it. See you there. In 19, In 95 BC, B.C. two years after the deaths of Grepis and Cizocanes, a very interesting meeting took place along the Euphrates.
1:35.0	On one side was the embassy of the Parthian king, Midredati's the second,
1:40.0	led by a man named Orobosis.
1:43.0	On the other was a Roman praetor and provincial governor named
1:47.0	Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
1:50.0	They were there to hammer out a very specific issue, but the occasion was pretty momentous,
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