Word: sardanapalus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Assyrian Readings. Subject: The Sardanapalus of Fiction and the Sardanapalus of History. Professor Lyon. Upper Boylston...
...contemporaries, or the imaginations of succeeding ages, give such a distorted picture as to make impossible any just conception of the man. Sometimes a character, whose representations are thus distorted, becomes his own vindicator. Perhaps no great man in the world's history has been more completely misunderstood than Sardanapalus. But we may now judge him according to his works, a thing which before our day was impossible. By excavations in the ruins of mineveh, the library of Sardanapalus has been recovered, and by the brilliant studies of English and German scholars, the contents of that library have now become...
Assyrian Readings. Subject: The Sardanapalus of Fiction and the Sardanapalus of History. Professor Lyon. Upper Boylston...
March 8. Sardanapalus...
Prof. Lyon will give four illustrated public lectures in the Upper Boylston as follows: March 8, Sardanapalus; March 15, Cyrus; March 22, Babylonian and Hebrew psalmody; March 29, Babylonian private life...