Apollonius (tyrant)

Apollonius (Ancient Greek: Απολλώνιος) was a tyrant of a town in Mesopotamia the Greeks called Zenodotion in the 1st century BCE.

When the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus entered the region, no city resisted his invasion besides Zenodotion.[1] The city allowed 100 of Crassus's soldiers to enter the town as if the town meant to surrender, but then slaughtered the soldiers. In retaliation, Crassus brought his entire army to bear on Zenodotion, captured and sacked the city, and sold its inhabitants into slavery.[2][3][4]

Notes
  1. Farrokh, Kaveh (2007). Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War. General Military Series. Osprey Publishing. p. 136. ISBN 9781846031083. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  2. Ussher, James (2003) [1654]. The Annals of the World. New Leaf Publishing Group. p. 615. ISBN 9781614582557. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  3. Plutarch, Crassus 17
  4. Pseudo-Appian, Parthica p. 27, ed. Schweigh

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apollonius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 238.

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