Person
Croesus
last king of Lydia
The last Mermnad king of Lydia, defeated by Cyrus II in the mid-540s BCE. His historical fall is overlaid by Greek stories of wealth, oracles and a disputed rescue from the pyre.
- Date
- r. c. 560–mid-540s BCE
- Other names
- Kroisos
- Groups
- Rulers beyond Persia
- Record status
- Secure identification
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Attested in
- Jacobs et al. 2021 in Croesus
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