# Anthemusias

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**Anthemusias** ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Ανθεμουσιάς) or **Charax Sidae** was an ancient [Mesopotamian](/source/Mesopotamian) town, according to [Pliny](/source/Pliny_the_Elder)[1] and [Strabo](/source/Strabo).[2] [Isidore of Charax](/source/Isidore_of_Charax)[3][4] says that it was 8 [schoeni](/source/Schoenus) from [Apamea](/source/Apamea_(Euphrates)) near the [Euphrates](/source/Euphrates) on the road to [Seleucia](/source/Seleucia), and Ptolemy places it “at the foot of a mountain called Caspius".[5]

The city was founded by one of the early [Seleucids](/source/Seleucid) and, according to [Ptolemy](/source/Claudius_Ptolemy),[6] was situated next to Apameia.[7]

- "[Tiridates](/source/Tiridates_III_of_Parthia) meanwhile, with the consent of the [Parthians](/source/Parthian_Empire), received the submission of [Nicephorium](/source/Nicephorium), Anthemusias and the other cities, which having been founded by [Macedonians](/source/Macedonians_(ethnic_group)), claim Greek names, also of the [Parthian](/source/Parthia) towns [Halus](/source/Halus,_Assyria) and [Artemita](/source/Artemita). There was a rivalry of joy among the inhabitants who detested [Artabanus](/source/Artabanus_II_of_Parthia), bred as he had been among the [Scythians](/source/Scythians), for his cruelty, and hoped to find in Tiridates a kindly spirit from his Roman training."[8]

This conquest by Tiridates III in 35 CE over Artabanus II was short-lived as Artabanus soon returned from [Hyrcania](/source/Hyrcania) with an army of [Dahae](/source/Dahae) [Scythians](/source/Scythians). However, he was forced to accept a treaty with the [Lucius Vitellius](/source/Lucius_Vitellius), the [Roman](/source/Roman_Empire) governor of Syria, in 37[CE](/source/AD), in which he gave up all power.

## References

1. Pliny, Nat His I. V, c. 24

1. Strabo, I. XVI, p. 747.

1. Isidore of Charax, Parthian Stations 8

1. Schoff, Wilfred H. 1914. *Parthian Stations by Isidore of Charax: An account of the overland trade route between the Levant and India in the first century B.C.* The Greek text, with a translation and commentary. Reprint by Ares Publishers Chicago. 1989.

1. Ptolemy, Geography 6.5.4

1. Ptolemy, Geography 6.5.4

1. Ammianus Marcellinus, 23.6.43

1. [Tacitus](/source/Tacitus), *Annals*, Bk. VI, 41.

## External links

- [Tacitus, *Annals*, Bk. VI, 21](http://www.romansonline.com/Src_Frame.asp?DocID=Ann_BK06_41)
- [A brief French reference](http://www.cosmovisions.com/monuAnthemusias.htm)

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