Semiramis, legendary Assyrian Queen. Gardens of Babylon built for Semiramis II. Killed her husband, the king, married her son -- and was killed by him. William Wetmore Story - American, active Italy, 1819 - 1895. In William Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, Eula Varner is her modern incarnation. Inferno V she appears in the same list as Helen of Troy as those punished for uncontrolled passion.

Semiramis, legendary Assyrian Queen. Gardens of Babylon built for Semiramis II. Killed her husband, the king, married her son -- and was killed by him.

William Wetmore Story - American, active Italy, 1819 - 1895.

In William Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, Eula Varner is her modern incarnation. Inferno V she appears in the same list as Helen of Troy as those punished for uncontrolled passion.