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
Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, one of the kings known to the Greeks by the name of Sardanapalus, reigned at Nineveh about B.C.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Yet his conception of Sardanapalus and Myrrha is fine and ideal, and in the style of excellence which we have just been admiring in Shakespeare and Scott.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
In the saloon is the "Caractacus" of Foley, and the "Sardanapalus" of Mr. Weekes.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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