Alyattes
Americannoun
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At length Alyattes died and Crœsus succeeded him.
From Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
These Cimmerians, having burned the great temple of Diana, at Ephesus, and destroyed the capital city of Sardis, were expelled from Lydia by Alyattes, the monarch against whom Cyaxares had made war.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
The tombs of Tantalais, near Smyrna, and of Alyattes, near Sardis, belong to the same date as those we shall find in Etruria.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
This was, in fact, the case; but Thrasybulus determined to disguise his real condition, and to destroy, by an artifice, all the hopes which Alyattes had formed from the supposed scarcity in the city.
From Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
The Lydians adopted a similar improvement in the tomb of Alyattes, near Sardis.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
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