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ELAM, the name given in the Bible to the province of Persia called Susiana by the classical geographers, from Susa or Shushan its capital. In one passage, however (Ezra iv. 9), it is confined to Elymais, the north-western part of the province, and its inhabita ...

... grown. Khuzistan (meaning " the land of the Khuz ") was a part of the Biblical Elam. the classical Susiana, and appears in the great inscription of Darius as Uvaja.

... which became • cobweb, while Arachne herself was changed into a »{>ider (Ovid, Uelam. vi. 5-145). The story probably indicates the superiority of Asia over Greece in the textile arts.

... Biot, to complete the meridional measurements which had been begun by J. B. J. Delambre, and interrupted since the death of P. F. A. M6chain (1744-1804). The two left Paris in 1806 and began operations among the mountains of Spain, but Biot returned to Paris a ...

... also L' Usage des globes celestes; Sedillot, Memoire sur les instrumens; J. B. Delambre, Histoire de V astronomie ancienne; R. Grant, History of Physical Astronomy. (M. L. H.)

... o based upon it in 1 746 a set of tables, superseded only by those of J. B. J. Delambre in 1792. Among the fruits of the strenuous career of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille were tables of the sun, in which terms depending upon planetary perturbations were, for the f ...

... seus, to punish him for his inhospitality, showed him the Gorgon's head (Ovid, Melam. iv. 627). Finally, Atlas was explained as the name of a primitive astronomer, who was said to have made the first celestial globe (Diodorus iii. 60). He was the father of the ...

... rick. His fame, however, was rapidly eclipsed by that of Friedrich U. L. EKRON— ELAM Schroder. His literary efforts were chiefly confined to translations from French authors. See H. Uhde, biography of Ekhof in vol. iv. of Der neue Plutarch (1876), and J. Rusch ...

... ne women. The heroes and heroines of the Trojan cycle, such as Achilles, Ajax, Telamon, Cassandra, Andromache, were prominent figures in some of the dramas adapted from the Greek. Several of the more important fragments are found in Cicero, who expresses a gre ...

... yprus 410374 B.C. He claimed descent from Teucer, half-brother of Ajax, son of Telamon, and his family had long been rulers of Salamis until supplanted by a Phoenician exile. When the usurper was in turn driven out by a Cyprian noble, Evagoras, fearing that hi ...

SUSA (Biblical, Shushan), the capital of Susiana or Elam and from the time of Darius I. the chief residence of the Achaemenian kings. It had been the centre of the old monarchy of Elam and had undergone many vicissitudes before it fell into the hands of the Pe ...

... und the room a series of square recesses or niches divided from one another by Telamones. The tepidarium in the Roman thermae was the great central hall round which all the other halls were grouped, and which gave the key to the plans of the thermae: it was pr ...