Semiramis

The old man calls her Semiramis, after the legendary Assyrian queen who fooled everyone by impersonating her own son -- most apt.

Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: Chairs in the City of Dreams Marc Porter Zasada 2011

The old man calls her Semiramis, after the legendary Assyrian queen who fooled everyone by impersonating her own son -- most apt.

Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: Chairs in the City of Dreams Marc Porter Zasada 2011

The old man calls her Semiramis, after the legendary Assyrian queen who fooled everyone by impersonating her own son -- most apt.

Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: Chairs in the City of Dreams Marc Porter Zasada 2011

Semiramis, which is followed by a very dramatic quartet ( "Di tanti regi").

The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

So I might go on for ever, through all my abortive novels, and down to my later plays, of which I think more tenderly, for they were not only conceived at first under the bracing influence of old Dumas, but have met with resurrection: one, strangely bettered by another hand, came on the stage itself and was played by bodily actors; the other, originally known as Semiramis: a Tragedy, I have observed on bookstalls under the alias of Prince Otto.

Memories and Portraits 2005

The name "Semiramis" crops up as an epithet in both Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew, as a legendary ancient warrior queen.

Pronouncing Semiramis nwhyte 2008

He fell away from it year by year, producing a long line of figures whose only impressive features were the names he gave them -- "The Libyan Sibyl," "Semiramis," "Salome,"

American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

Some years later than the date of his meeting with Mrs. Robinson he produced a version of Voltaire's "Semiramis," which was presented at Drury Lane Theatre in 1776.

Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

It is to be found in the 'Semiramis' of Voltaire, in the

Inquiries and Opinions Brander Matthews 1890

"Semiramis," says the father of history, "raised magnificent embankments to restrain the river (Euphrates), which till then used to overflow and flood the whole country round Babylon."

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885