Dramatis Personae

MEN.

SARDANAPALUS, king of Nineveh and Assyria, etc.

ARBACES, the Mede who aspired to the Throne.

BELESES, a Chaldean and Soothsayer.

SALEMENES, the King's Brother-in-Law.

ALTADA, an Assyrian Officer of the Palace.

PANIA.

ZAMES.

SFERO.

BALEA.

WOMEN.

ZARINA, the Queen.

MYRRHA, an Ionian female Slave, and the Favourite Mistress of SARDANAPALUS.

Women composing the Harem of SARDANAPALUS, Guards, Attendants, Chaldean Priests, Medes, etc., etc.

SCENE.--A Hall in the Royal Palace of Nineveh.