Topic: Lydia (2)

• PersonCroesus

  Croesus (Greek Kroisos; reigned c. 560 to the mid-540s BCE) was the last king of Lydia, ruler of the wealthy kingdom of western Anatolia from his capital at Sardis, subjugator of the Ionian Greek cities of the coast, and, in the Greek imagination, the archetype of the fabulously rich king undone…

• PersonTissaphernes

  Tissaphernes was a Persian royal commander whose long western career crossed the reigns of King Darius II and King Artaxerxes II. He first emerges among the officers sent against the rebel Pissuthnes, then took over authority centred on Sardis and helped defeat Pissuthnes’s son Amorges. In 413/12…