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  2. Croesus - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of kings of Lydia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Lydians - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Honorific nicknames in popular music - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] In the 1930s and 1940s, as jazz and swing music were gaining popularity, it was the more commercially successful white artists Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman who became known as "the King of Jazz" and "the King of Swing" respectively, despite there being more highly regarded contemporary African-American artists. [7]

  6. Atide - Wikipedia

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    Atide is an opera in three acts by Josef Mysliveček set to a libretto by Tomaso Stanzani that is based on Greek legends about Atys, an ancient king of Lydia. Stanzani's libretto is based on an earlier libretto by Philippe Quinault that was originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully as Atys in 1676.

  7. Atys - Wikipedia

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    Atys (King of Alba Longa), a king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology; Atys of Lydia, an early king of Lydia, then probably known as Maeonia, and was the father of Lydus; Atys (son of Croesus), the son of the later King Croesus of Lydia; Tantalus (son of Broteas), husband of Clytemnestra in Greek mythology

  8. Candaules - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Lists of ancient kings - Wikipedia

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    Rulers of Calakmul (no actual king-list; must be dug out of text) List of lords of Caracol; List of rulers of Copan; List of the rulers of Dos Pilas; Rulers of Dos Pilas; Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj (no actual king-list; must be dug out of history) Rulers of Motul de San José; Rulers of Palenque; List of rulers of Piedras Negras; Rulers of ...

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