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The Fall of Nineveh, painting by John Martin (1829), inspired by Edwin Atherstone's poem

The Fall of Nineveh is a long poem in blank verse by Edwin Atherstone.[1] It consists of thirty books preceded by a Prelude. The poem was written over many years and published 1828–1868. It tells of the battles and events during the war between the coalition of Medes and Babylonians against the Assyrians.

  1. ^ Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790–1910, Oxford 2008, s. 256-261.

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The Fall of Nineveh

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Nineveh

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Book of Nahum

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witnessed the invasion of Sennacherib and his retreat. The scholarly consensus is that the "book of vision" was written at the time of the fall of Nineveh at...

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Fall of Babylon

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dedicated a number of years writing his Book of 12 volumes The Assyrian After the Fall of Nineveh. He also participated in a number of Assyrian conferences...

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Sinsharishkun

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brother and predecessor Aššur-etil-ilāni in 627 BC to his own death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC. Succeeding his brother in uncertain, but not necessarily...

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War in the Hebrew Bible

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such as the Fall of Nineveh (612 BCE); it is not only the main topic of the books of Nahum and Jonah, but also described in the Persica of the Greek writer...

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Greece Pre-classical period (612 BC – 480 BC) – the fall of Nineveh to the second Persian invasion of Greece Classical antiquity (480 BC – 476 AD) Classical...

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Nebuchadnezzar II

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History of Interpretation of Daniel 4. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 978-9004114210. Johnston, Christopher (1901). "The Fall of Nineveh". Journal of the American...

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Median kingdom

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the case of Cyaxares, his existence and role in the fall of Nineveh are corroborated by the Babylonian Chronicle. Thus, other details regarding the chronology...

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Assyria

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Ashur-uballit II chose Harran as his seat of power after the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC. Harran is typically seen as the short-lived final Assyrian capital....

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including the Fall of Babylon (1831), The Fall of Nineveh, Divine vengeance, Pandemonium (1841) and The Eve of the Deluge (1840). The Fall of Babylon,...

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Edwin Atherstone

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poem, The Fall of Nineveh, consisting of thirty books, appeared at intervals from 1828 to 1868. It narrates about war waged by the coalition of many nations...

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Babylonian Chronicles

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1923 by the publication of the Fall of Nineveh Chronicle (ABC 3), in 1924 by Sidney Smith's publication of the Esarhaddon Chronicle (ABC 14), the Akitu...

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7th century BC

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Assyrians finally left the world stage permanently when their capital Nineveh was destroyed in 612 BC. These events gave rise to the Neo-Babylonian Empire...

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Isaac the Syrian

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– c. 700), also remembered as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Nineveh, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Syriac Christian...

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Ashurbanipal

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storylines. It was typical to portray the fall of Nineveh and Assyria as a consequence of Assyria's supposed lack of moral values, combined with its ostentation...

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Medes

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and associates them with the same family. Secondly, the Babylonian Chronicle which in "Gadd's Chronicle on the Fall of Nineveh" gives its own list. A combined...

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chronicles (written from the point of view of the victorious Babylonians); the Nabopolassar Chronicle and the Fall of Nineveh Chronicle, as well as royal...

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A Looking Glass for London

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Recounting the Biblical story of Jonah and the fall of Nineveh, the play is a noteworthy example of the survival of the Medieval morality play style of drama...

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Cyaxares

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during the fall of Nineveh. After the death of Sinsharishkun, an Assyrian leader who might have been his son, Ashur-uballit II, proclaimed himself the new...

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Tell Sheikh Hamad

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Book of Habakkuk

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