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SEMIRAMIS is the earliest female warrior of whose existence there is any certainty. But even her history is intermingled with much of fable and idle tradition. The exact period at which she reigned has never been positively determined. The following dates, assigned to her reign by various historians, ancient and modern, as compared by the antiquarian Bryant, show the diversity of opinion amongst chronologists upon the subject.
B. C. According to Syncellus, she lived 2177 Petavius makes the time 2060 Helvicus 2248 Eusebius 1984 Mr. Jackson 1964 Archbishop Usher 1215 Philo Biblius Sanchoniathan (apud Euseb.) 1200 Herodotus (about) 713