Eastern Nations and Greece (1898) (14785471513)

Identifier: easternnationsgr00myeruoft (find matches)
Title: Eastern Nations and Greece
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846-1937
Subjects: History, Ancient Greece -- History
Publisher: Boston, Ginn
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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had razed to the ground, — makingit again a great city. Sickness falling upon the monarch, he made his son Asshur-bani-pal joint ruler with himself, and died shortly after, leaving hisrenowned son as the sole head of the great empire. Asshur-bani-pal (668-626? b.c). — This king, the Sardanapa-lus of the Greeks, is distinguished for his magnificent patronage of ^ This expression is a Hebraism, meaning often any physical cause ofdestruction, as a plague or storm. In the present case, the destroying agencywas probably a pestilence. 82 THE ASSYRIAN MONARCHY. art and literature. During his reign Assyria enjoyed her Augustanage. Under the inspiration of his example and the encouragementof his favor, a great literary enthusiasm sprang up at Nineveh ; andwithin the walls of his palace in that city was collected the largestand most important of Assyrian libraries. But Asshur-bani-pal was also possessed of a warlike spirit. Hebroke to pieces, with a terrible energy, in swift campaigns, the
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SIEGE OF A CITY, SHOWING USE OF BATTERING-RAM. (Fr(fm Nimajd.) enemies of his empire. Susiana especially was made a terribleexample of his vengeance ; its cities were levelled, and the wholecountry was laid waste. x\ll the scenes of his sieges and battles hecaused to be sculptured on the walls of his palace at Nineveh.These pictured panels are now in the British Museum. They area perfect Iliad in stone. Saracus, or Esarhaddon II. (?-6o6 b.c). — Saracus was thelast of the long line of Assyrian kings. His reign was filled withmisfortunes for himself and his kingdom. For nearly or quiteseven centuries the Ninevite kings had lorded it over the East.There was scarcely a state in all Western Asia that had not, duringthis time, felt the weight of their conquering arms; scarcely apeople that had not suffered their cruel punishments, or tasted thebitterness of their servitude. SARACus, OR ESARHADDON II. 83 But now swift misfortunes were bearing down upon the oppressorfrom every quarter. The