CLA230H1 Midterm: Midterm Two Terms
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Land-hunger (increasing population, famine, political disputes, inheritance issues) Greek colony in libya - founded by a group of immigrants from the island of thera in the aegean. Battus: leader, became the first king, founded dynasty battiads (631-440 bc: eight generations) Economically prosperous: coins credited to the lydians: king. Known as the oppressor, the harsh, the severe". Dynasty began to decline due to his reign, became more of a tyrant then a king. Befriended learchus who had intentions of stealing the throne, whose plots were later foiled and he was sent into exile and settles in barca. Learchus defeats arkesilas in battle, and kills him with a poisonous drink. Sources: pindar: two victory poems for king arkesilas in chariot victory at. Delphi: herodotus: foundation story told by people of cyrene and thera, 4th c. inscriptions from cyrene, fragment of 3rd bc historian. Oracle at delphi which ordered him to found new libyan colony.
