"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian kingdom, and the residence of the great kings of Assyria, was founded by Nimrod  (Genesis 10:11), and by Ninos, the mythical founder of the Assyrian empire, according to Greek and Roman writers who repeatedly referred to it as "that great city."  The size of it is given as "three day's journey" (Jonah 3:3); and this agrees with the writings of the classical Greek and Roman writers who called it the "greatest city in the world at that time."[10]