Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Croesus and Solon: Who Is the Happiest Man? (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — Solon’s visit and Croesus’s later recognition
• Croesus on the Pyre Saved by Apollo (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic salvation · Herodotean — Cyrus’s pyre; Croesus’s recognition of Solon; rain from a clear sky
• Croesus Tests the Oracles (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic prestige · Herodotean — lamb-and-tortoise riddle; Delphi and Amphiaraus proven true

Places appearing with them

• Clear sky over the pyre
• Halys
• Mount Helicon
• Other oracle sites
• Pyre before Cyrus
• Pytho
• Sardis
• Troezen

Themes

• Binding
• Prophecy
• War