英语词汇sardanapalian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Sardanapalian; Sardanaplan. The dissolute Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was probably the prototype of Sardanapalus, the semilegendary king of Greek fable whose name has become a synonym for effeminate luxury. King Ashurbanipal lived in the seventh century b.c., the Greeks calling him Sardanapalus be- cause his real name was a difficult one for them to pronounce. It is hard to separate fable from fact concerning Sardanapalus, but he does not deserve the designation “effeminate.” Rather he appears to have been a shrewd military strategist and blood- thirsty tyrant who reigned for over 40 years, beginning in 658 b.c., and conquered Babylon, parts of Egypt, the Medes and Persians. But as he grew older, Sardanapalus surrounded him- self with luxuries, his philosophy, it is said, summed up in a monument he had erected in the city of Anchiale. Its inscrip- tion read: “Sardanapalus the king . . . In one day built Anchiale and Tarsus. Eat, drink and love, the rest’s not worth this!” The epicure retired to his magnificent palace filled with tempera paintings, woven carpets, and furniture inlaid with gold. Locked up with his wives and concubines, he devoted himself to sensual pleasure. So the legend goes anyway. We only know for certain that the virile king, last of the great Assyrian mon- archs, was depicted as effeminately hedonistic by Greek writers under the name Sardanapalus and that he became famous for living in great luxury. Lord Byron helped this misconception along with his poem “Sardanapalus” (1821) in which he wrote: “And femininely meanth furiously. Because all passions in ex- cess are female.”

词汇	sardanapalian
词源	Sardanapalian; Sardanaplan. The dissolute Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was probably the prototype of Sardanapalus, the semilegendary king of Greek fable whose name has become a synonym for effeminate luxury. King Ashurbanipal lived in the seventh century b.c., the Greeks calling him Sardanapalus be- cause his real name was a difficult one for them to pronounce. It is hard to separate fable from fact concerning Sardanapalus, but he does not deserve the designation “effeminate.” Rather he appears to have been a shrewd military strategist and blood- thirsty tyrant who reigned for over 40 years, beginning in 658 b.c., and conquered Babylon, parts of Egypt, the Medes and Persians. But as he grew older, Sardanapalus surrounded him- self with luxuries, his philosophy, it is said, summed up in a monument he had erected in the city of Anchiale. Its inscrip- tion read: “Sardanapalus the king . . . In one day built Anchiale and Tarsus. Eat, drink and love, the rest’s not worth this!” The epicure retired to his magnificent palace filled with tempera paintings, woven carpets, and furniture inlaid with gold. Locked up with his wives and concubines, he devoted himself to sensual pleasure. So the legend goes anyway. We only know for certain that the virile king, last of the great Assyrian mon- archs, was depicted as effeminately hedonistic by Greek writers under the name Sardanapalus and that he became famous for living in great luxury. Lord Byron helped this misconception along with his poem “Sardanapalus” (1821) in which he wrote: “And femininely meanth furiously. Because all passions in ex- cess are female.”
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