ANTH 3030 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nabonidus Chronicle, Greek Lyric, Croesus
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Read the articles in the oxford classical dictionary (de 5. oz5 1996: any edition will do, but the third is the best) on croesus, solon and cyrus the great. Take special note of their homes, their dates and any occasions where they might have come into contact with each other. Read thoroughly herodotus, book 1. 29-34 (penguin ed. p. 13-16); and book 1. 86-88 (penguin ed. p. 39-41). Note what he says a little before (1. 5 penguin): i preferto point out who it was in actual fact that first injured the. There are two other pieces of evidence relevant to croesus" downfall. The first is an illustration (see the accompanying sheet) from an black figure vase dated soon after. 500 b. c. , which depicts croesus on his pyre. There is also a passage in a choral ode by the greek lyric poet bacchylides (written in 468 b. c. ) which also refers to croesus:
