the lydians
1The Birds (play) — The Birds Rider and birds Laconian calyx ca. 540 B.C. The Dramatis Personae in ancient comedy depends on interpretation of textual evidence.[1] This list is developed from D.Barrett s translation.[2 …
2Lydians — Early 6th century BC coin minted by a King of Lydia The Lydians were the inhabitants of Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo European language of the Anatolian group. Questions raised regarding… …
3The Clouds — This article is about the play by Aristophanes. For other uses, see Cloud (disambiguation). The Clouds Strepsiades, his son and Socrates (from a 16th Century engraving). The Dramatis Personae in ancient comedy depends on interpretation of textual …
4Lydians — n. person from the ancient kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor; resident of Lydia n. Anatolian language of the Indo European languages spoken in Lydia adj. of or pertaining to Lydia or to its culture or people …
5LYDIA, LYDIANS — (Heb. לודיים ,לוּדִים ,לוּד; Assyr. Luddu), people who, together with the Phrygians and other Anatolian peoples, infiltrated Anatolia after the decline of the hittite empire at the beginning of the 12th century B.C.E., and settled in the vicinity …
6Cyrus the Great — King of Āryāvarta[1][2], King of Persia, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the four corners of the World[ …
7Magnesia on the Maeander — For other uses, see Magnesia (disambiguation). Magnesia or Magnesia on the Maeander (Greek: Μαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Μαιάνδρῳ or Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ, Latin: Magnesia ad Maeandrum) was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, considerable in size, at an… …
8NATIONS, THE SEVENTY — NATIONS, THE SEVENTY, a conception based on the list of the descendants of Noah given in Genesis 10, usually called The Table of Nations. According to the table, all the nations of the earth may be classified as descended from one or another of… …
9Districts of the Achaemenid Empire — Ancient Near East portal Herodotus divided the Achaemenid Empire into 20 districts. The following is a description of the ethnic makeup of the districts and the amount they paid in taxes, translated from Herodotus Histories. The Districts …
10Middle Eastern Empires — The Middle East has been the political center of several empires through history. Many of the earliest known empires originated in the middle east. Middle eastern empires have been instrumental in the spreading of ideas, technology and religions… …
