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Sardanapalus in Ovid (1)

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	Keywords Sardanalapus
Period 1st century CE Roman Empire	Channel Roman poets

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Ovid, Ibis 312-313:
May you send with you to the pyre those dearest to you,
Which ending Sardanapalus had to his life.

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Ovid, Ibis 312-313

Erik van Dongen

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