This king placed his absolute confidence in the Oracle at Delphi after she correctly predicted he was making his favorite dish, turtle and goat stew, at the moment.
This king placed his absolute confidence in the Oracle at Delphi after she correctly predicted he was making his favorite dish, turtle and goat stew, at the moment. An opposing ruler captured this king after using dromedary camels to send his cavalry into panic through their distinctive smell. This ruler dreamed that his son Atys would be killed by an iron spear, foreshadowing Atys's actual death via a poorly thrown spear during a boar hunt. According to Herodotus, this ruler was told that the (*) happiest and second-happiest men to ever live were not him, but rather the soldier Tellus and the brothers Cleobis and Biton, in a conversation with Solon. This ruler's downfall came after he unwisely interpreted the message that "a great empire would be destroyed" as a guarantee of his own victory. This ruler's great wealth was used to sponsor the construction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and under his rule, an alloy of gold and silver called electrum was used to make some of the earliest coins. Cyrus the Great conquered the kingdom of, for 10 points, what last king of Lydia?
This king placed his absolute confidence in the Oracle at Delphi after she correctly predicted he was making his favorite dish, turtle and goat stew, at the moment.
Croesus