Sardanapalus (also spelled Sardanapallus) was, according to the Greek writer Ctesias of Cnidus, the last king of Assyria. Ctesias' Persica's lost, but we know of its contents by later compilations and from the work of Diodorus (II.27). Sardanapalus has often been identified with the Assyrian king Aššurbanipal, but his death in the flames of his palace recall the fate of Aššurbanipal's brother Šamaš-sum-ukkin. The Greek writer Choerilus of Iasus composed an epitaph o… (More on Sardanapalus)