There are claims that the mountain is named after the legendary Ninus, Ninus-mountain.
Ctesias (as known from Diodorus) also related that after the death of Ninus, his widow Semiramis, who was rumored to have murdered Ninus, erected to him a temple-tomb, 9 stadia high and 10 stadia broad, near Babylon, where the story of Pyramus and Thisbe (Πύραμος; Θίσβη) was later based.
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Trogus began with a legendary Ninus, founder of Nineveh, and ended at about the same point as Livy (AD 9).