Semiramis

Semiramis, Queen of Assyria, reigned four generations before Nitocris, according to Herodotus, but she was a mythical personage. Diodorus of Sicily tells a remarkable story of her being deserted whilst a child by her mother, a goddess, and kept alive by doves. She is supposed to have founded, with her husband Ninus, Nineveh and other cities and monuments, and to have lived 2,000 years before the Christian era.