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

Sardanapalus, too, endeavored to rival the son of Jupiter, by spinning among his maids.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

I find the following statement: "The act of Sardanapalus in making his palace his own funeral pyre and burning himself upon it, is also attributed to the king who was overthrown by Cyaxares."

From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Even under the Assyrian monarchs and especially under Sardanapalus, Babylon had been a scene of great intellectual activity.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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