Sardanapale

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Sardanapale: Sardanapalus (also spelled Sardanapallus) was, according to the Greek writer Ctesias of Cnidus, the last king of Assyria. Ctesias' Persica is lost, but we know of its contents by later compilations and from the work of Diodorus (II.27). Sardanapalus has often been identified with the Assyrian king Aššurbanipal,[1] but his death in the flames of his palace recall the fate of Aššurbanipal's brother Šamaš-sum-ukkin: an inscription of Ashurbanipal records, "they threw down Šamaš-sum-ukkin, enemy brother who attacked me, into the raging conflagration".[2] The Greek writer Choerilus of Iasus composed an epitaph on Sardanapalus, said to have been translated from the Chaldean.[3] On the eve of the battle of Issus (333BCE), Alexander's biographers say, Alexander the Great was shown what the locals purported to be the tomb of Sardanapalus at Anchialus in Cilicia, with a relief carving of the king clapping his hands over his head and an inscription that the locals translated for him as "Sardanapalus, son of Anakyndaraxes, built Anchialus and Tarsus in a single day; stranger, eat, drink and make love, as other human things are not worth this" (signifying the clap of the hands).

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