Editing Nineveh (section)

== In popular culture ==
English Romantic poet [[Edwin Atherstone]] wrote an epic titled ''[[The Fall of Nineveh]]''.<ref>Herbert F. Tucker, Epic. Britain's Heroic Muse 1790–1910, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, pp. 256-261.</ref> The work tells of an uprising against king Sardanapalus by all the nations that were dominated by the Assyrian Empire. He is a great criminal who had one hundred prisoners of war executed. After a long struggle, the town is conquered by Median and Babylonian troops, led by prince Arbaces and priest Belesis. The king then sets his own palace on fire and dies inside together with all his concubines.
[[File:Fall of nineveh.jpg|thumb|240px|John Martin, ''The Fall of Nineveh'']]
Atherstone's friend, artist [[John Martin (painter)|John Martin]], created a painting of the same name inspired by the poem. English poet [[John Masefield]]'s well-known, fanciful 1903 poem ''[[Salt-Water Poems and Ballads#"Cargoes"|Cargoes]]'' mentions Nineveh in its first line. Nineveh is also mentioned in [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s 1897 poem ''[[Recessional (poem)|Recessional]]''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46780/recessional | title=Recessional by Rudyard Kipling | date=14 December 2022 }}</ref> and [[Arthur O'Shaughnessy]]'s 1873 poem ''[[Ode (poem)|Ode]]''.