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	Alyattes II
		Alyattes II, king of Lydia (609-560 BC), the real founder of the Lydian empire[?], was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the Mermnadae[?].
		On May 28, 585 BC, during a battle on the Halys[?] against Cyaxares[?], king of Media, a solar eclipse took place (see also Thales); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms.
		Alyattes drove the Cimmerii (see Scythia) from Asia, subdued the Carians[?], and took several Ionian cities (Smyrna, Colophon).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alyattes_II.html (262 words)

	Alyattes - LoveToKnow 1911
		ALYATTES, king of Lydia (609-560 B.C.), the real founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the Mermnadae.
		On the 28th of May 585, during a battle on the Halys between him and Cyaxares, king of Media, an eclipse of the sun took place; hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms.
		His tomb still exists on the plateau between lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of Sardis - a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alyattes (236 words)

	d. The Phrygians and the Lydians. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Under Alyattes, the Greek cities of the coast (except Miletus) were conquered.
		Alyattes' daughter married Astyages, son of the Median king.
		The enormous tumulus tomb of Alyattes was described by Herodotus and is still to be seen near the ruins of Sardis.
	www.bartleby.com /67/114.html (528 words)

	Alyattes of Lydia
		Alyattes' father and grandfather had consolidated the kingdom in western Turkey, and Alyattes embarked upon a policy of conquest.
		Alyattes' custom each year was to invade Milesian territory when the crops were ripe, marching in to the music of pipes, harps, and treble and tenor oboes.
		In the east, Alyattes conquered the former capital of the ancient capital of Phrygia, Gordium, and built a fortress.
	www.livius.org /men-mh/mermnads/alyattes.html (943 words)

	Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
		Alyattes was the king of Lydia in 776BC.
		Alyattes II (609 or 619-560BC) - one of the greatest rulers on Lydia.
		The Battle of the Eclipse was the final battle in a fifteen-year war between Alyattes II of Lydia and Cyaxares of the Medes.
	www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=Lydia (1618 words)

	Lydian Period in Anatolia and Asia Minor
		Alyattes (ruled 610 to 560 BCE), the fourth of the Mernmad kings, brought Lydia great prosperity and extended his borders over a large territory.
		Alyattes tried to reinforce his western borders knowing that Medes, one day, would be trouble for the Lydians.
		Alyattes, after a long successful reign, died and he was replaced by his son Croesus, another able king of Lydia.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/lydian_period.htm (1631 words)

	Alyattes * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		When Alyattes became king, he inherited a war of attrition against the people of Miletus that had gone on for twelve years; the war had the same basic theme each year: the Lydians would attack the Milesians and burn their crops but they would not kill the people or destroy their homes.
		The Milesians were no match for the powerful army of Alyattes and suffered year after year of deprivation; in the twelfth year of the war, the army of Alyattes accidentally set fire to the temple of Athene (Athena) at Assesos and it was utterly destroyed.
		Alyattes and his subjects, gave little thought to the destruction of the temple until Alyattes was afflicted with a lingering illness; he sent an emissary to the oracle at Delphi seeking a cure for his illness and was told that until he rebuilt the temple of Athene at Assesos he would suffer ill health.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Alyattes_1.html (402 words)

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		ALYATTES, king of Lydia (6o9-56o B.c.), the real founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the Mermnadae.
		Alyattes drove the Cimmerii (see SCYTHE.%) from Asia, subdued the Carians, and took several Ionian cities (Smyrna, Colophon).
		His tomb still exists on the plateau between lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of Sardis—a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=2580&locale=en (246 words)

	Croesus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Alyattes is said to have married twice, having children by both women, one from Caria and the second from Ionia.
		When Alyattes died, his thirty-five years old son by the Carian woman, Croesus, came to the throne, probably in 560 BC, after destroying a faction that conspired to win the throne for his half-brother Pantaleon, son of Alyattes by the Ionian mother.
		Agron 2, Alcaeus 6, Alyattes, Ardys, Astyages, Atys 3, Belus 3, Cambyses, Candaules, Croesus, Cyrus, Dascylus, Dercetis 1, Gaia, Gyges, Heracles 1, Lydus, Mandane, Manes, Myrsus, Ninus, Omphale, Sadyattes, Semiramis, Zeus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Croesus.html (5506 words)

	Lydia.htm
		Alyattes (610 - 561 BCE), son of Sadyattes ascended to the Lydian throne and expanded his kingdom.
		Croesus (561 - 541 BCE), son of King Alyattes was the last king of the Mermnad dynasty of Lydia.
		King of Lydia, Alyattes son of Ardys set a weight standard for the coin (168 grains of wheat for Stater).
	worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C4/Lydia/Lydia.htm (710 words)

	THE HISTORIES OF HERODOTUS (SELECTIONS)
		Croesus was Lydian in genos, the son of Alyattes, and turannos of the nations this side of the river Halys, which flows from the south between the Syrians and Paphlagonians and towards the north enters the sea called the Euxine.
		Alyattes had supposed there was great famine in Miletos and the people were worn down to the most extreme misery, but he heard from the herald returning from Miletos a report opposite to his expectation.
		When Alyattes died, Croesus son of Alyattes inherited the kingship at age 35, and the Ephesians were the first of the Hellenes he attacked.
	www.geocities.com /jserraglio/texts/herodotu.htm (23274 words)

	Thrasybulus of Miletus
		Thrasybulus tyrant of Miletus, was a contemporary of Periander and Alyattes, the king of Lydia.
		It was in the twelfth year of that war that the temple of the Assesian Athene was burnt down, after which Alyattes fell sick, and the Delphic oracle, when consulted by him, refused to give a response till the temple was rebuilt.
		Alyattes, who had expected to find the people reduced to the last extremity, hastily concluded a peace, 612 BC.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/ThrasybulusOfMiletus.html (250 words)

	Herodotus: Book 1: Clio: 20
		And Alyattes, when this answer was reported to him, sent a herald forthwith to Miletos, desiring to make a truce with Thrasybulos and the Milesians for so long a time as he should be building the temple.
		For Alyattes, who thought that there was a great famine in Miletos and that the people had been worn down to the extreme of misery, heard from the herald, when he returned from Miletos, the opposite to that which he himself supposed.
		After Alyattes was dead Crœsus the son of Alyattes received the kingdom in succession, being five-and-thirty years of age.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/hh/hh1020.htm (1612 words)

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		The horsemen, whose camp was outside the city, delivered their horses to the grooms and went inside the walls looking forward to the double pay.
		Alyattes shut the gates and, having surrounded the horsemen with his own hoplites, cut them all to pieces.
		According to Herodotos (I 14-22), Gyges tried unsuccessfully to conquer Miletos, and the war was started again by Sadyattes and continued by his son Alyattes who, despairing of ever being able to reduce the city, made a treaty of alliance with it.
	saturniancosmology.org /files/homer/lydia.txt (2557 words)

	Herodotus: Book One
		Alyattes' soldiers burn the temple of Athene; Alyattes falls ill. An oracle advises rebuilding the temple (19).
		Alyattes is tricked into thinking the Milesians have plenty of food, so he makes peace and builds new temples (22).
		Cyaxares, father of Croesus' brother-in-law, hosts some Scythian exiles, who quarrel with him, feed him human flesh, and escape to Croesus' father Alyattes; the resulting war of Lydians and Cappadocians ends when the armies are terrified by an eclipse (585 BC?); Croesus' sister is given to Cyaxares' son Astyages as part of the treaty.
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/Hum110/Hdt/Hdt1.html (2790 words)

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		It was they who advised that Alyattes should give his daughter Aryenis in marriage to Astyages, the son of Cyaxares, knowing, as they did, that without some sure bond of strong necessity, there is wont to be but little security in men's covenants.
		This Pantaleon was a son of Alyattes, but by a different mother from Croesus; for the mother of Croesus was a Carian woman, but the mother of Pantaleon an Ionian.
		This is the tomb of Alyattes, the father of Croesus, the base of which is formed of immense blocks of stone, the rest being a vast mound of earth.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/herodotus-history.txt (20808 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		Croesus, son of Alyattes, by birth a Lydian, was lord of all the nations to the west of the river Halys.
		Alyattes, the moment that the words of the oracle were reported to him, sent a herald to Miletus in hopes of concluding a truce with Thrasybulus and the Milesians for such a time as was needed to rebuild the temple.
		He had all the corn that was in the city, whether belonging to himself or to private persons, brought into the market-place, and issued an order that the Milesians should hold themselves in readiness, and, when he gave the signal, should, one and all, fall to drinking and revelry.
	classics.mit.edu /Herodotus/history.1.i.html (10917 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume III, Number 7
		The eclipse, Thales prediction of it, and the historical circumstances for which it was relevant are detailed only by Herodotos (1.74): After this, because Alyattes refused to surrender the Scythians despite the ongoing pleas of Kyaxares, a war ensued between the Lydians and Medes over a period of some five years.
		After this, when and because Alyattes refused to give up the Skythians to Kyaxares despite his continual petitions, a war took place between the Lydians and the Medes over a duration of five years during which often the Medes got the best of the Lydians and often the reverse.
		In this war they brought about a battle by night; and the engagement came about in the sixth year when they were still contending with each other at war on an equal basis, when it happened, as the battle was beginning, that day suddenly became night.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V3N7/worthen.html (5128 words)

	Croesus
		Croesus himself made conquered neighbouring lands, but his single most important decision as a ruler was to start a war against Persia that would result in a defeat so complete that Lydia's independence was lost forever.
		Solon is reported to have answered: "Judge no man's happiness before the moment of his death." Since the Lydian empire came to an end with Croesus, this legend is a popular warning for anyone who believes that he cannot fall from his fame.
		Perhaps 610 BCE: There are no sources setting his birth year, but he must have been one of his father Alyattes's oldest sons (Alyattes ruled from 619) yet fit to fight for his right to the throne upon his death in 560.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/croesus.htm (399 words)

	Chapter 2
		It was the pharaoh's intent to establish an official alliance with Alyattes of Lydia.
		Though Lydia was a small country, in essence, Alyattes ruled Asia Minor, all of it.
		"The emissaries of Alyattes, king of Lydia and the ambassador of Ashurubalit, king of Assyria." The pharaoh's eyes widened in surprise.
	www.usfamily.net /web/jo.amdahl/Chapter_2.html (2542 words)

	Croesus
		He was the first foreigner so far as we know to come into direct contact with the Greeks, both in the way of conquest and alliance, forcing tribute from Ionians, Aeolians, and Asiatic Dorians, and forming a pact of friendship with the Spartans.
		According to Herodotus, this was the cause of the great conflict between Greeks and Persians in the first quarter of the fifth century.
		Croesus was born in 595 as the son of Alyattes, the ruler of Lydia between c.600 and 560, and a woman from Caria.
	www.livius.org /men-mh/mermnads/croesus.htm (1633 words)

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		Alyattes continues the war against the Milesians, plundering their territory each year.
		Alyattes' tomb is one of the wonders of the world.
		Atys, son of Croesus, is killed by accident on a boar hunt by Adrastus son of Gordias, son of Midas.
	folk.ntnu.no /chrisjoh/tidslinje1.html (2328 words)

	Historia en Línea-Contenidos - Los Nueve Libros de la Historia de Heródoto. Libro 1 1ª parte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Así sucedió efectivamente; y Alyattes, que se imaginaba en Mileto la mayor y a los habitantes sumergidos en la última miseria, oyendo de boca de su mensajero todo lo contrario de lo que esperaba, tuvo por acertado concluir la paz con la sola condición de que fuesen las dos naciones amigas y aliadas.
		Alyattes, por un templo quemado, edificó dos en Asseso a la diosa Minerva, y convaleció de su enfermedad.
		Por muerte de Alyatte; entró a reinar su hijo Creso a la edad de treinta y un años, y tornando las armas, acometió a los de Efeso, y sucesivamente a los demás Griegos.
	www.webhistoria.com.ar /zmagazine+article.articleid+172+page+1.htm (2689 words)

	Biblical History: Lydian Kingdom
		The Kingdom of Lydia enters the world scene in 660 B.C., when the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal demanded tribute from the Lydian king, "Gyges of Luddi." The grandson of Gyges, Alyattes, built the Lydian Empire during his fabulous fifty-seven year reign.
		Alyattes captured Smyrna, the greatest port of the Asian coast, and one-by-one, added Greek coastal towns to his domain.
		Croesus was the son and heir of Alyattes, and the most important Lydian king in relation to the Bible.
	www.mtjuliet.org /sermons/magnify98/lydian.html (470 words)

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	Lydia and Phrygia \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Whether Gyges was an old man at his death and had been a contemporary of Midas, or was a later, seventh-century king, remains unresolved.
		Given the massive overlay of post-Lydian settlements, little of the pre-seventh-century remains—and, indeed, relatively little of the kingdom's architectural and cultural remains—have been uncovered, except for parts of a monumental fortification wall.
		A large group of burials each placed under a tumulus exist here, a few of which have been investigated, but they had been robbed in the past; one of them is the largest in Anatolia (198 feet high), and may have held the body of Alyattes; another is claimed for Gyges.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/lygo/hd_lygo.htm (772 words)

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