The Fall of Nineveh (poem)
Sardanapalus is the king of Nineveh. He is a strong man, but he has no character to be a leader of his nation. He wants only to drink with his women. He stays at home even when a battle lasts on the plain by the city. He is a great criminal, too. He ordered one hundred prisoners of war executed for a sacrifice to pagan gods. He was ready to offer his own daughter, too but she ran away. At last he burned his own palace and died inside, together with all his women.