CIVILIZATION
LYDIAN
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Alyattes and Croesus
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Seleucids and Persepolis
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Cambyses and Artxerxes
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Selecus and Orodes I
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Detailed explanation-1: -Croesus, (died c. 546 bc), last king of Lydia (reigned c. 560–546), who was renowned for his great wealth. He conquered the Greeks of mainland Ionia (on the west coast of Anatolia) and was in turn subjugated by the Persians.
Detailed explanation-2: -Herodotus’ account of Croesus; 1.6–94 (from the Perseus Project, containing links to both English and Greek versions). Croesus was the son of Alyattes and continued the conquest of Ionian cities of Asia Minor that his father had begun.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gyges, aka Guges (c. 680–c. 644 BCE; husband of Candaules’ widow) Ardys, aka Ardysus (c. 644–c. 637 BC; son of Gyges) Sadyattes (c. 637–c. Alyattes (c. 635–585 BCE; son of Sadyattes) Croesus, aka Kroisos (c. 585–546 BC; son of Alyattes)