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Crœsus, King of Lydia, is a tragedy in five parts by Alfred Bate Richards, first published in 1845. To be " riche comme Crésus " is a popular French saying to describe the wealthiest of the wealthy, and gave its name to a TF1 game show Crésus , where the king is reimagined as a CGI skeleton, who has returned from the dead to give some of his ...
This article lists the known kings of Lydia, both legendary and historical.Lydia was an ancient kingdom in western Anatolia during the first millennium BC. It may have originated as a country in the second millennium BC and was possibly called Maeonia at one time, given that Herodotus says the people were called Maeonians before they became known as Lydians.
Candaules (died c.687 BC; Greek: Κανδαύλης, Kandaulēs), also known as Myrsilos (Μυρσίλος), [1] was a king of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia in the early years of the 7th century BC. According to Herodotus, he succeeded his father Meles as the 22nd and last king of Lydia's Heraclid dynasty. He was assassinated and succeeded by Gyges.
Portrait of Croesus, last King of Lydia, Attic red-figure amphora, painted c. 500–490 BCE. Material in the way of historical accounts of themselves found to date is scarce; the knowledge on Lydians largely rely on the impressed but mixed accounts of ancient Greek writers.
The queen, mad with the king, confronted Gyges and offered him the choice to be killed or kill the king. Gyges killed the king and seized the throne, taking the widowed queen as his wife. [1] The painting shows the moment when the king and Gyges watch from behind a curtain how the naked queen is going to bed.
Le Roi Candaule (en. King Candaules) is a Grand ballet in four acts and six scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni.The libretto is by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and is based on the history of King Candaules the Ruler of Lydia, as described by Herodotus in his Histories.
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Lydus (Ancient Greek: Λυδός), a son of Atys and Callithea, grandson of Manes, and brother of Tyrrhenus or Torybus, is a legendary figure of the 2nd millennium BC who is attested by Herodotus to have been an early king of Lydia, then probably known as Maeonia.