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Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh ( also called Νίνου πόλις " city of Ninus " in Greek ), Ancient capital of Assyria, although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and / or fictional figures of antiquity, as seen to the Greeks through the mists of time.
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The early Greek historian Ctesias c. 400 BC ( followed by Diodorus Siculus ) alleged that the legendary Assyrian king Ninus had defeated a Bactrian king named Oxyartes in ca.
Herodotus ' opinions are disputed by Ctesias, who, however, has mistaken mythology for history, and Greek romance owed to him its Ninus and Semiramis, its Ninyas and Sardanapalus.
In the Recognitions ( R 4. 29 ), one version of the Clementines, Nimrod is equated with the legendary Assyrian king Ninus, who first appears in the Greek historian Ctesias as the founder of Nineveh.
The early Greek historian Ctesias c. 400 BCE ( followed by Diodorus Siculus ) alleged that the legendary Assyrian king Ninus had defeated a Bactrian king named Oxyartes in ca.
Perhaps it was in response to Greek writers mythologising her to the point where she was described as the founder of Babylon, daughter of the Syrian goddess Derketo, and married to Ninus ( the legendary founder of Nineveh, in Greek eyes ).
Ninus and historians
Ninus continued to be mentioned by European historians ( e. g. Alfred the Great ), even up until knowledge of cuneiform enabled a more precise reconstruction of Assyrian history in the 19th century.
A number of historians, beginning with the Roman Cephalion ( c. AD 120 ) asserted that Ninus ' opponent, the king of Bactria, was actually Zoroaster ( or first of several to bear this name ), rather than Oxyartes.
Ninus and Hellenistic
Texts from the Hellenistic period and later offered an eponymous Ninus as the founder of Nineveh, although there is no historical basis for this.
The story of Ninus and Semiramis is taken up in a different form in a 1st century AD Hellenistic romance called the Ninus Romance, the Novel of Ninus and Semiramis, or the Ninus Fragments.
Ninus and later
But later writers know a Ninus who is the primordial king of Assyria, and they often call this Ninus son of Belus.
That, at least, is the interpretation of later chronographers who also ignored Herodotus ' statement that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and Ninus in their List of Kings of Lydia.
Ctesias ( as known from Diodorus ) also related that after the death of Ninus, his widow Semiramis, who was rumored to have murdered Ninus, erected to him a temple-tomb, 9 stadia high and 10 stadia broad, near Babylon, where the story of Pyramus and Thisbe ( Πύραμος ; Θίσβη ) was later based.
Ninus and was
* Eurypyle, queen of the Amazons who was reported to have led an expedition against Ninus and Babylon around 1760 BC
Herodotus asserts that the first of the Heraclids to reign in Sardis was Agron, the son of Ninus, son of Belus, son of Agelaus, son of Heracles.
The fruit of the marriage was Ninyas, said to have succeeded Ninus.
Ninus was first identified in the Recognitions ( part of Clementine literature ) with the biblical Nimrod, who, the author says, taught the Persians to worship fire.
Ninus was so struck by her bravery at the capture of Bactra that he married her, forcing Onnes to commit suicide.
After King Ninus conquered Asia, including the Bactrians, he was fatally wounded by an arrow.
She succeeded Ninus, and was his spouse ;
It was suggested in The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop that he was originally a conqueror who fathered king Ninus the first, and that after Ninus ' death his wife Semiramis began to claim Ninus as a Sun god, Cush ( Belus ) as the Lord God, herself as the mother goddess and her son Tammuz as the god of love, in an effort to control her subjects better after the death of her husband, and to allow her to rule as her newborn son's regent.
The odd connection between Picus and Ninus reappears in John of Nikiû's Chronicle ( 6. 2f ) which relates that Cronus was the first king of Assyria and Persia, that he married an Assyrian woman named Rhea and that she bore him Picus ( who was also called Zeus ) and Ninus who founded the city of Ninus ( Nineveh ).
Ninus and founder
The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.
Their Ninus is the legendary founder and eponym of the city of Ninus, referring to Ninevah, while Belus, though sometimes treated as a human, is identified with the god Bel.
Trogus began with a legendary Ninus, founder of Nineveh, and ended at about the same point as Livy ( AD 9 ).
Ninus and Nineveh
In his History of the World ( written c. 1616 ) Sir Walter Raleigh erroneously asserted ( attributing the information to Johannes Nauclerus c. 1425-1510 ), that Nineveh had originally had the name Campsor before Ninus supposedly rebuilt it.
Another Ninus is described by some authorities as the last king of Nineveh, successor of Sardanapalus.
Ninus and also
More recently, the identification in Recognitions of Nimrod with Ninus ( and also with Zoroaster, as in Homilies ) formed a major part of Alexander Hislop's thesis in the 19th century tract The Two Babylons.
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Arioch ( Arius ) was also a grandson of Semiramis in the classical Ninus legend.
Ninus and called
Upon the death of Belus, his uncle Ninus became king and then married his own mother who was previously called Rhea but is now reintroduced under the name of Semiramis.
The German historian Johannes Aventinus disputed that Trebeta ( whom he called Trever or Treiber ) was the son of Ninus, claiming that he was in fact a son of Ninus ' contemporary Mannus, who was supposedly the second king of Germany.
Ninus and ),
The figures of King Ninus and Queen Semiramis first appear in the history of Persia written by Ctesias of Cnidus ( c. 400 BC ), who claimed, as court physician to Artaxerxes II, to have access to the royal historical records.
Ninus and capital
As the story goes, Ninus, having conquered all neighboring Asian countries apart from India and Bactriana, then made war on Oxyartes, king of Bactriana, with an army of nearly two million, taking all but the capital, Bactra.
Ninus and Assyria
Further embroidery in the monkish Gesta made of Trebeta the son of Ninus, a " King of Assyria " imagined by the ancient Greeks, by a wife prior to his marriage to the equally non-historical Queen Semiramis.
His stepmother, Semiramis, despised him and when she took over the kingdom after the death of his father, Ninus, Trebeta left Assyria and went to Europe.
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.
He was said to be the son of Ninus, King of Assyria, by a wife prior to his marriage to Queen Semiramis.
His stepmother Semiramis despised him, and when she took over the kingdom after the death of his father Ninus, Trebeta left Assyria and went to Europe.
Ninus and one
Afterwards she married Onnes or Menones, one of the generals of Ninus.
Onnes in legend was one of the generals of the mythological Assyrian king, Ninus.
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