Theme Of Semiramis In Dante's Inferno

An allusion is a brief reference to a well-known person, event, or place both real and imaginary. In Dante’s Inferno – Canto V, one allusion present is Sammu-Ramat, also known as Semiramis. “Her appetite for lust became so flagrant, that she made lewdness licit with her laws, to free her from the blame her vice incurred. She is Semiramis, whose story reads that, as his wife, she succeeded Ninus, controlling the country now ruled by the sultan.” (Lines 55-60)
Before meeting King Ninus, Semiramis was already married. She met King Ninus of Babylon and luckily for the two, her current husband had coincidentally committed suicide shortly after their first encounter. Semiramis then married King Ninus and eventually convinced him to give her power