Sardanapalus

British  

/ ˌsɑːdəˈnæpələs /

noun

1. the Greek name of Ashurbanipal

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Example Sentences

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

As long as the world was content to take this imperial fustian in a Pickwickian sense, the imperial impresario found the same enjoyment as when he staged Sardanapalus on the boards of the Berlin Theater.

From The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia by Beck, James M. (James Montgomery)

At that early period these were used for awnings and floor-coverings in the palaces of the Assyrian kings Sargon, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Sardanapalus.

From Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference by Holt, Rosa Belle

In Nicolaus Cyrus says, that Arbaces who overthrew Sardanapalus was not wiser than himself, nor were the Medes better warriors than the Persians.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

Sardanapalus is not a Lear, nor is Myrra a Cordelia.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred