Sardis

Place · slug: sardis

Also: Lydia, Magnesia

Cleobis and Biton (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Argive piety legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (Solon’s exemplum of a happy life)
Candaules and Gyges (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian royal legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (origin of Mermnad dynasty)
Croesus and Solon: Who Is the Happiest Man? (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — Solon’s visit and Croesus’s later recognition
Atys and Adrastus: Death of Croesus’s Son (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — dream, boar-hunt, accidental spear-kill
Niobe’s Weeping Rock on Sipylus (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Anatolian aetiology · Pausanian local — rock on Mount Sipylus still weeping
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

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library