The name of Semiramis came to be applied to various monuments in Western Asia and Anatolia whose origins had been forgotten or unknown,See Strabo xvi. I. 2 even the Behistun Inscription of Darius.Diodorus Siculus ii. 3 Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates.i. 184 He knew her name because it was inscribed on a gate of Babylon.iii. 155 Various places in Mesopotamia, Media, Persia, the Levant, Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Caucasus received names recalling Semiramis.
The name of Semiramis came to be applied to various monuments in Western Asia and Anatolia whose origins had been forgotten or unknownSee Strabo xvi. I. 2 even the Behistun Inscription of Darius.Diodorus Siculus ii. 3 Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates.i. 184 He knew her name because it was inscribed on a gate of Babylon.iii. 155 Various places in Mesopotamia, Media, Persia, the Levant, Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Caucasus received names recalling Semiramis