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Nineveh was the capitol of...
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Nineveh was the capitol of the Assyrian Empire, in present-day Iraq. The ancient world was cruel, but the Assyrians were perhaps the cruelest. Modern commentators characterize them as imperialists and ruthless aggressors. Lord Byron captured them in a poem,
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
-- The Destruction of Sennacherib
(stanza one)
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
-- The Destruction of Sennacherib
(stanza one)
