About 10 results for ‘Semiramis’
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Semiramis
The real and historical Shammuramat (in Greek, Semiramis), was the Assyrian queen of Shamshi-Adad V (ruled 824 BC–811 BC), King of Assyria and ruler of the Neo Assyrian Empire, and its regent for four years until her son Adad-nirari III came of age. For the ancient Greeks Semiramis was one of several legendary Assyrian queens. The most recent was Semiramis II for whom the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built. The legends narrated by Diodorus Siculus, Justin and others from Ctesias of Cnidus make a picture of her and her relationship to King Ninus, himself a mythical king of Assyria, not attested in the Assyrian King List. The name of Semiramis came to be applied to various monuments in Western Asia, the origin of which was forgotten or unknown. Ultimately every stupendous work of antiquity by the Euphrates or in Iran seems to have been ascribed to her, even the Behistun Inscription of Darius. Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates and knows her name as borne by a gate of Babylon. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis. Various places in Assyria, Mesopotamia, Medea, Persia and Asia Minor bore the name of Semiramis, but slightly changed, even in the Middle Ages, and an old name of the city of Van was Shamiramagerd. Assyrians still name female children Semiramis to this day.
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- Artist(s):
- René-Antoine Houasse
NABUCHODONOSOR ET SEMIRAMIS FAISANT ELEVER LES JARDINS DE...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Ludovico Carracci
Sémiramis à qui un guerrier vient annoncer la révolte de ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Babylon
- Child
- Domestic worker
- Palace
- Semiramis
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 16th century
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Edgar Degas
SEMIRAMIS CONSTRUISANT BABYLONE, ETUDE D'ENSEMBLE
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Field(s):
- Costume
- Textile
- Vitreous enamel
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- Designation:
- bourse
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crown (headgear)
- Semiramis
- Shield
- Woman
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- Date:
- 18th century
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