Sardanapalus
Britishnoun
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His opening salvo was 1978’s The Destroyed Room, an image of a woman’s trashed bedroom that referenced Romantic-era painter Eugène Delacroix’s The Death of Sardanapalus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2015
Cyrus remembered how Arbaces had previously overthrown Sardanapalus, and obtained his dominion, and yet the Medes, by whom he was supported, were not stronger than the Persians.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max
He was controverted by Ctesias, who, however, has mistaken mythology for history, and Greek romance owed to him its Ninus and Semiramis, its Ninyas and Sardanapalus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
What is poor Byron made of, but a peg—a mere peg—whereon to hang the fine clothes of a Sardanapalus?
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
In the saloon is the "Caractacus" of Foley, and the "Sardanapalus" of Mr. Weekes.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
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