"Ninus is not attested in any of the extensive king lists compiled by the Mesopotamians themselves,...An Assyrian queen Shammuramat...for five years from 811 BC ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire as regent for her son Adad-nirari III, and had been the wife of Shamshi-Adad V. ....Ninus was first identified in the Recognitions (part of Clementine literature) with the biblical Nimrod,..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninus numbers are source notes.
.” “...[Ctesias of Cnidus's] history... gossip, fairy tales and legend.” Dr. R. Bichler says,84
“...Prof. Jan Stronk states that Ctesias’85 “reliability as a historian has been seriously questioned….by [current] historians….by authors in antiquity.....Aristotle thought very little of the reliability of Ctesias...." Prof. Bigwood says88 “Few historians enjoyed in antiquity a lower reputation than…Ctesias of Cnidus....Dr. D. L. Gera
reports,91 “Ctesias seems to have been the first to ...link these two figures [Nimrod and Ninus].” Prof. L. Grabbe concurs, saying,92 “Ctesias seems to be the origin of a number of stories about oriental heroes and heroines, such as Ninus and Semiramis.”
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