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Nineveh and its legendary founder Ninus (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Building the heavenly city
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas
01.01.07 Establishment of cosmos
01.01.07.03 Building the heavenly city
Labour service (tupšikku)
08 Administrative systems
08.04 Taxation
08.04.06 Labour service (tupšikku)

Keywords
Nineveh
Ninus

Period
1st century BCE
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Diodorus Siculus 2.3.1-2:
For having accomplished deeds more notable than those of any king before him, he was eager to found a city of such magnitude, that not only would it be the largest of any which then existed in the whole inhabited world, but also no other ruler of a later time should, if he undertook such a task, find it easy to surpass him. … and then, gathering his forces from every quarter and all the necessary material, he founded on the Euphrates river a city which was well fortified with walls, giving it the form of a rectangle.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Diodorus Siculus 2.3.1-2

Bibliography

Oldfather 1960, I 354-357

Oldfather, C. H. Diodorus of Sicily. 12 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

Amar Annus

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