Listed 7 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "SYRIA Country MIDDLE EAST" .
ORONTES (River) SYRIA
The Syrian river Orontes does not flow its whole course to the sea on a level, but meets a precipitous ridge with a slope away from it. The Roman emperor (Tiberius) wished ships to sail up the river from the sea to Antioch. So with much labour and expense he dug a channel suitable for ships to sail up, and turned the course of the river into this. But when the old bed had dried up, an earthenware coffin more than eleven cubits long was found in it, and the corpse was proportionately large, and human in all parts of its body. This corpse the god in Clarus, when the Syrians came to his oracle there, declared to be Orontes, and that he was of Indian race.
In Syria, Cambyses' death there (Hrd. 3,64).
LAODIKIA (Ancient city) SYRIA
City of Syria, possesses image of Brauronian Artemis.
SYRIA (Ancient country) SYRIA
Its geography, many rivers there, Syrian desert, Syrians' defeat by Egyptians, their tribute to Persia, Syrians of Cappadocia, Cappadocians called Syrians by Greeks, invaded by Croesus, in Xerxes' army, Mount Casius in, traversed by Io in search of Epahus, Dionysus roams over, Dawn consorts with Cephalus and bears Tithonus in, Sandocus migrates from, to Cilicia, conquered by Ptolemy, son of Lagus, overrun by Antigonus, buildings of Antoninus Pius in, Syrians of Laodicea possess image of Brauronian Artemis, ancient laurel in land of Syrians, Syrians on the Orontes, Hebrews dwell above Syrians, sanctuaries of Syrian goddess at Thuria and Aegira, monument of Syrian man (Philopappus) at Athens.
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