Horizon, Volume 5,Numéro 7Horizon Publishers, 1963 |
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... King Croesus became the richest man in the world . There seemed to be no limit to what money could buy . To insure favorable oracles , the kings of Lydia gave presents worth millions to the sanctuaries of Greek gods . They bought the ...
... King Croesus became the richest man in the world . There seemed to be no limit to what money could buy . To insure favorable oracles , the kings of Lydia gave presents worth millions to the sanctuaries of Greek gods . They bought the ...
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... king of Lydia , who ruled in Sardis from 560 to 546 B.C. It is a story of riches to rags . On the advice of the Delphic oracle , Croesus attacked the Persians and thereby lost his kingdom . Cyrus marched his armies into Sardis in ...
... king of Lydia , who ruled in Sardis from 560 to 546 B.C. It is a story of riches to rags . On the advice of the Delphic oracle , Croesus attacked the Persians and thereby lost his kingdom . Cyrus marched his armies into Sardis in ...
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... kings used to do when their armies took the field . Was Xerxes fol- lowing a Lydian custom ? Over the marble chamber of King Alyattes , father of Croesus , archaeologists found a pyre of carbonized oak ; were the Lydian kings , like ...
... kings used to do when their armies took the field . Was Xerxes fol- lowing a Lydian custom ? Over the marble chamber of King Alyattes , father of Croesus , archaeologists found a pyre of carbonized oak ; were the Lydian kings , like ...
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