In Popular Culture
An 1813 poem by Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib, commemorates Sennacherib's campaign in Judea from the Hebrew point of view. Written in anapestic tetrameter, the poem was popular in school recitations.
Senaccherib is briefly mentioned in the science-fiction novel Children of Dune by Frank Herbert.
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