| Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer) |
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| text Library, book 3, chapter 5: ... sons and three
daughters. On the other hand, Xanthus the
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| Aristophanes, Birds (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.) |
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| card 1224: ... and keep quiet! Do you take me for a Lydian or a Phrygian and think to frighten me with |
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| Aristophanes, Knights (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.) |
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| card 507: ... the lyre and fluttered wings; he turned into a Lydian and even into a gnat, daubed himself with green |
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| Aristotle, Politics |
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| book 1, section 1254a: ... ‘mode’ (Dorian, the modern minor scale,
Phrygian and Lydian, two forms of major) was ruled by its
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| book 1, section 1254a: ... ‘mode’ (Dorian, the modern minor scale,
Phrygian and Lydian, two forms of major) was ruled by its
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| book 8, section 1342b: ... and
educative, which seems to be the nature of the Lydian mode most of all the
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| Diodorus Siculus, Library |
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| book 9, chapter 29: ... with Atys, as he was called, the son
of the Lydian king, Croesus, unwittingly struck and killed the boy while |
| book 9, chapter 29: ... with Atys, as he was called, the son
of the Lydian king, Croesus, unwittingly struck and killed the boy while |
| book 9, chapter 31: ... becomes the king of Medes,
Then, tender-footed Lydian, do thou flee
Along the pebbly bed of |
| book 9, chapter 33: ... that the Pythian
priestess replied:
O thou of Lydian stock, o'er many king,
Thou great fool |
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| Euripides, Alcestis (ed. David Kovacs) |
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| card 675: ... whom do you imagine you are berating with insults, some Lydian or Phrygian slave of yours, bought with money? Do |
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| Euripides, Bacchae |
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| card 135: ... a raw-eaten delight, rushing to the Phrygian, the Lydian mountains, and the leader of the dance is Bromius, |
| card 135: ... a raw-eaten delight, rushing to the Phrygian, the Lydian mountains, and the leader of the dance is Bromius, |
| card 215: ... some stranger has come, a sorcerer, a conjuror from the Lydian land, fragrant in hair with golden curls, having |
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| Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (ed. E. P. Coleridge) |
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| card 773: ... my children's children the prospect which the wealthy Lydian ladies and Phrygia 's brides will have as |
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| Herodotus, The Histories |
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| book 1, chapter 6:
Croesus was a Lydian by birth, son of Alyattes , and sovereign of |
| book 1, chapter 6:
Croesus was a Lydian by birth, son of Alyattes , and sovereign of |
| book 1, chapter 7: ... Lydus , son of Atys , from whom this whole Lydian district got its name; before that it was |
| book 1, chapter 17: ... army to besiege their city. The reason that the Lydian did not destroy the houses was this: that the |
| book 1, chapter 19: ...
In the twelfth year, when the Lydian army was burning the crops, the fire set in |
| book 1, chapter 22: ... Thrasybulus the message he had been instructed by the Lydian to deliver, and returned to Sardis ; |
| book 1, chapter 25:
Alyattes the Lydian , his war with the Milesians finished, died after |
| book 1, chapter 34: ... , and although Atys was accustomed to command the Lydian armies, Croesus now would not send him out |
| book 1, chapter 50: ... the god, to whom he also commanded that every Lydian sacrifice what he could.
When the sacrifice was |
| book 1, chapter 55: ... a mule as king,
Just then, tender-footed Lydian , by the stone-strewn Hermus
Flee and |
| book 1, chapter 71: ... preparing to march against the Persians , a certain Lydian , who was already held to be a wise man |
| book 1, chapter 72: ... Cyrus .
For the boundary of the Median and Lydian empires was the river Halys , which flows |
| book 1, chapter 79: ... Asia more valiant or warlike than the Lydian . It was their custom to fight on horseback, carrying |
| book 1, chapter 80: ... Mother Dindymene Identified with the Phrygian and Lydian goddess Cybele . and empties into the sea... his maneuver, that Croesus ' cavalry, on which the Lydian relied to distinguish himself, might be of no use |
| book 1, chapter 85: ... .
The Pythian priestess answered him thus:
“ Lydian , king of many, greatly foolish Croesus ,
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| book 1, chapter 89: ... gods have made me your slave,” replied the Lydian , “it is right that if I have any |
| book 1, chapter 153: ... Persian called Tabalus , and instructing Pactyes , a Lydian , to take charge of the gold of Croesus |
| book 1, chapter 159: ... this question to the oracle: “Lord, Pactyes the Lydian has come to us a suppliant fleeing a violent |
| book 1, chapter 207:
But Croesus the Lydian , who was present, was displeased by their advice and |
| book 3, chapter 36: ...
For these acts Croesus the Lydian thought fit to take him to task, and addressed... nor wish Croesus back, then to kill the Lydian .
Not long after this Cambyses did wish |
| book 3, chapter 122: ... , sent Myrsus son of Gyges , a Lydian , with a message to Samos , having learned |
| book 3, chapter 127: ... spearmen and being governor of the Phrygian and Lydian and Ionian province.
He had recourse, then, |
| book 5, chapter 12: ... be sitting in state in the suburb of the Lydian city, they put on their sister the best adornment |
| book 5, chapter 36: ... 1.46 . the treasure which Croesus the Lydian had dedicated there. With this at their disposal, he |
| book 6, chapter 37: ... stood high in the opinion of Croesus the Lydian , and when Croesus heard what had happened, he |
| book 7, chapter 27: ... this city Pythius son of Atys , a Lydian , sat awaiting them; he entertained Xerxes himself |
| book 7, chapter 29: ... was pleased with what he said and replied: “My Lydian friend, since I came out of Persia I |
| book 7, chapter 38: ... Xerxes led his army away, Pythius the Lydian , frightened by the heavenly vision and encouraged by the |
| book 7, chapter 74:
The Lydian armor was most similar to the Greek . The |
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| Pausanias, Description of Greece |
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| book 2, chapter 21: ... Tyrsenus, and Tyrsenus was the son of Heracles and the Lydian woman; Tyrsenus invented the trumpet, and Hegeleos, the son |
| book 2, chapter 21: ... Tyrsenus, and Tyrsenus was the son of Heracles and the Lydian woman; Tyrsenus invented the trumpet, and Hegeleos, the son |
| book 3, chapter 10: ... the image in Amyclae even the gold which Croesus the Lydian sent for Apollo Pythaeus. 560-546 B.C. |
| book 5, chapter 1: ... of Pisa he was put down by Pelops the Lydian, who crossed over from Asia .
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| book 6, chapter 13: ... in renown to Chionis was Hermogenes of Xanthus , a Lydian, who won the wild olive eight times at three |
| book 7, chapter 6: ... Lamia .
I myself know that Adrastus, a Lydian, helped the Greeks as a private individual, although the Lydian commonwealth held aloof. A likeness of this Adrastus in |
| book 8, chapter 24: ... statement about one Aglaus, a Psophidian contemporary with Croesus the Lydian. The statement was that the whole of his life |
| book 9, chapter 5: ... fame for his music, learning from the Lydians themselves the Lydian mode, because of his relationship to Tantalus, and adding |
| book 9, chapter 12: ... a different pattern were made; what is called the Lydian mode was played on flutes of a third kind. |
| book 9, chapter 22: ... of these blackbirds is the same as that of the Lydian birds, but in color they are like crows, while |
| book 10, chapter 8: ... The gold shield given to Athena Forethought by Croesus the Lydian was said by the Delphians to have been stolen |
| book 10, chapter 16: Of the offerings sent by the Lydian kings I found nothing remaining except the iron stand |
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