Susa

When they were six, Darius, whose father, Hystaspes, was a subordinate governor of the Persians, arrived at Susa.

Having wept, and grieved by all his misfortune, he sprang upon his horse, with intent to march at once to Susa against the Magus.

So now because he had healed Darius at Susa

And they had selected for Cyrus the most splendid tent and the lady of Susa, who was said to be the most beautiful woman in Asia, and two of the most accomplished music-girls;

Now this woman was the wife of Abradatas of Susa;

For the ranks of his Persian horse were now filled up to the number of ten thousand, the scythe-bearing chariots that he himself had had constructed had now reached the full number of one hundred, and those which Abradatas of Susa had undertaken to secure like those of Cyrus had also reached the full number of one hundred more.

and likewise the wall at Susa and at Bactra;

For what is left for me, having mastered Babylon and Susa and Ecbatana and the affairs in India?

When, at any rate, Xerxes and Darius drove from up-country, from Susa, a great crowd of Persians and Medes and Sacae and Arabs and Egyptians, hither into Greece to perish, were they doing a kingly or a cook's work, driving a prey to be cut up?

There was situated a large city named Opis, near which the Greeks met the bastard brother of Cyrus and Artaxerxes, who was leading a large army from Susa and Ecbatana to the support, as he said, of the King;

that the road to the eastward led to Susa and Ecbatana, where the King is said to spend his summers;

After many cycles of years, however, they too came to reverence statues of human form, as Berossus shows in the third book of his Chaldaic Affairs, this having been introduced by Artaxerxes son of Darius son of Ochus, who first set up the statue of Aphrodite Anaïtis in Babylon and Susa and Ecbatana, and showed the Persians and Bactrians and Damascus and Sardis to reverence it.