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- Lydian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language spoken in the region of Lydia, in western Anatolia (now in Turkey). The language is attested in graffiti...
- Maeonia at one time, given that Herodotus says the people were called Maeonians before they became known as Lydians. Herodotus and other sources refer...
- the Trojans during the Trojan War, and from this name "Maeonia" and "Maeonians" derive and while these Bronze Age terms have sometimes been used as alternatives...
- Lucian, around the second century AD, wrote in his work The Gout that the "Maeonian maid Arachne thought herself Athene's match, but she lost her shape and...
- by severe famine during Atys' reign. To help them endure hunger, the Maeonians developed various expedients including dice, knucklebones and ball games...
- first and thereby implies that Sardis was already the capital of Lydia in Maeonian times. Candaules died c.687 BC and so the 505-year span stated by Herodotus...
- Lydians. J. B. Bury and Russell Meiggs (1975) say that Candaules is a Maeonian name meaning "hound-choker". More recently, however, it has been suggested...
- father's heaven, do sing, goddess. Although the man's deeds are much famed in Maeonian song (but more remain), that we traverse the whole— so I crave—hero may...
- destro**** by Heracles, in his second Labour. Son of Typhon and Echidna. Maeonian Drakon, a dragon that lived in the kingdom of Lydia and was killed by Damasen...
- Ciconian spearmen, Paionian archers, Halizones, Mysians, Phrygians, Maeonians, Miletians, Lycians led by Sarpedon and Carians. Nothing is said of the...