Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Ancients
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Nebuchadnezzar and the Garden of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar had written lots of inscriptions and they were well preserved, but there was nothing about the garden in them. But when you looked at the later Greek sources, they had such specific descriptions as Diodorus Seculus and Strabo and Josephus. And then I discovered to my astonishment that Josephus was the only one who said the garden was in Babylon. So he may have deliberately or by mistake changed the name of the baker of the gardens in order to please themor link the narrative he was giving into something that was very familiar.
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