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Hanfmann and his colleagues also found evidence to verify the legend that Sardis, capital of the ancient Lydian kingdom under King Croesus, was seized by Greek veterans of the Trojan War in the 12th century...
...consolidation craze has created opportunities for sudden Croesus-style riches. For aiding Pantry Pride in its fight for Revlon, financial advisers and lawyers stand to gain more than $100 million. The winners include Drexel Burnham, which sold the junk bonds to finance the deal and is earning an estimated $60 million...
...roughly 35,000 celebrators during the three-day event. (The people who attend tend to dress like the people of Easton. A first-time visitor this year was struck by the thought that if a poor man could manage to obtain a chamois-shirt concession, all his envy of Croesus would cease.) The affair nets as much as $200,000, a sum the town divides among waterfowl-conservation groups. Some of the paintings for sale fetch as much as $10,000. Some of the delicately carved decorative decoys commonly bring $3,000. "Hell," explained one craftsman, defending his costly wares...
...Pactolus River brought gold dust from the mountains into the center of the city, where King Croesus, whose names is still associated with great riches, had it removed and turned into coins--the first known instance of coinage in the Western world Croesus's wealth and power rivalled even that of the Phrygian King Midas, his neighbor to the north, who, as the legend goes, ridded himself of his "golden touch" by bathing in the same stream...
...rich land of Hyde." The poet Sappho laments that she cannot obtain the colorful Lydian hat of Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending a rain shower to put out the fire...