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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...
- ****yrian sun god
Before he ****umed the throne, the
ruling family had been the
Maeonian line of Lydus, from whom the country's name was derived.
According to Herodotus...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
