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Hanging Gardens of Babylon (2)

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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
Garden
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.04 Botanical symbols, imagery and iconographic motifs
02.04.01 Garden
Syria as a designation of the Assyrian Empire
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.12 Syria as a designation of the Assyrian Empire

Keywords
Hanging Gardens
Persia

Period
1st century BCE
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Diodorus Siculus 2.10.1:
There was also, beside the acropolis, the Hanging Garden, as it is called, which was built, not by Semiramis, but by a later Syrian king to please one of his concubines; for she, they say, being a Persian by race and longing for the meadows of her mountains, asked the king to imitate, through the artifice of a planted garden, the distinctive landscape of Persia.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Diodorus Siculus 2.10.1

Bibliography

Oldfather 1960, I 382-385

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

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Cf. Hanging Gardens of Babylon (1)
Cf. Hanging Gardens of Babylon (3)

Amar Annus

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