Croesus and Delphi by H. W. Parke

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Croesus and the Lydian Navy by Annalisa Paradiso

“…Herodotus 1.27 knows of a shipbuilding project, planned by Croesus and stopped after a meeting of the king with either Bias or Pittacus. …”
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Educating Croesus: talking and learning in Herodotus' Lydian logos by Pelling, C

“…Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three important scenes of Herodotus' Lydian logos, the meeting of Solon and Croesus (1.29–33), the scene where Cyrus places Croesus on the pyre (1.86–90), and the advice of Croesus to Cyrus to cross the river and fight the Massagetae in their own territory (1.207). …”

UNCOVERING THE TRUE “WEALTH” OF HAPPINESS —EXAMINING THE LIMITATIONS THAT GOVERN CROESUS’ QUESTION ABOUT HAPPINESS AND ARISTOTLE’S SUBSEQUENT REPLY by Alon Segev

“…This discussion starts by examining Croesus’s question to Solon, who is the happiest man on earth, and then continues by analyzing Solon’s reply that a man can only be called happy after his death. …”
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‘La chiamiamo con entrambi i nomi’: eponimia ed eteronimia tra Nemesis e Adrasteia by Daniela Bonanno

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Les alliances lydo-égyptienne et lydo-babylonienne by Kevin LELOUX

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La inconstancia de la suerte (¿1700-1800?), Herodotus and Fortune: notes on an anonymous «comedia histórica» by Giuseppe Marino

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L’Halys chez Hérodote by Kevin Leloux

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Remarcable, however biologically unknown sawfly Craesus latipes (Villaret) (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) by Jaroslav Urban

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L’Oriente Vicino: le tradizioni sulla Lidia nello specchio di Erodoto by Francesca Gazzano

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Paging the oracle: interpretation, identity and performance in Herodotus' History by Barker, E

“…Herodotus begins his enquiry (‘historia’) into why Greeks and Persians came into conflict with the figure of Croesus, ‘the first man whom we know enslaved Greeks’ – the archetypal eastern despot. …”

Conversations in History: Arrian and Herodotus, Parmenio and Alexander by Janet D. Chaplin

“…<p>Arrian’s account of Parmenio’s warning to Alexander at Persepolis is meant not only to evoke Herodotus’ account of Croesus and Cyrus, but also to critique Herodotus’ notion of endless reciprocity in history.…”
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Heufelder: Argentinischer Krösus by Christian Fleck

“…Kleine Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Frankfurter Schule (The Argentine Croesus: Short Economic History of the Frankfurt School). …”
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El encuentro de Solón y Creso y su influencia en la formación del líder ejemplar. Una perspectiva jenofóntica. by Carolina Olivares Chávez

“…In the Cyropaedia, the historian notes how King Croesus transmitted Cyrus the Great teachings from his meeting with Solon. …”
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El encuentro de Solón y Creso y su influencia en la formación del líder ejemplar. Una perspectiva jenofóntica. by Carolina Olivares Chávez

“…In the Cyropaedia, the historian notes how King Croesus transmitted Cyrus the Great teachings from his meeting with Solon. …”
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Pojęcie hybris w kulturze i filozofii greckiej by Filip Bardziński

“…Departing from the mythological Hubris – goddess of disdain, pride, arrogance and scandalous behavior, I will develop the wide contexts of hubris as a personal disposition of Greek heroes – such as Ajax, Agamemnon, Oedipus, as well as the moral demerit of such figures as Croesus or Xerxes. I will argue that – throughout Greek mythology, culture, and philosophy – the notion of hubris was understood as acting in a scandalous manner, pushed further to its extremity – and thus being the ultimate offense both to people and the gods.…”
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Good life and good death in the Socratic literature of the fourth century BCE by Suvák Vladislav

“…A model for the Socratic discussions could be found in Herodotus’ story about the meeting between Croesus and Solon. Within their conversation, Solon shows the king of Lydia that death is a place from which the life of each man can be seen as the completed whole. …”
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Herodotus' proem: space, time, and the origins of international relations by Rood, T

“…The idea of separation between the Trojan War and earlier conflicts will be compared with the initial presentation of Croesus’ subjection of the Greeks and the later sophistic account of how Deioces gained power within Media.…”

L’huile d’olive d’Ollioules à Versailles by Frédéric d’Agay

“…The president of Bandol, daughter of Maurel de Pontevès, the Croesus of Provence, came to Paris in 1687 to place her sons at the Louis-le-Grand school and to have them brought up by a tutor, with whom she continued a voluminous correspondence. …”
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Chitin-Based Anisotropic Nanostructures of Butterfly Wings for Regulating Cells Orientation by Abdelrahman Elbaz, Jie Lu, Bingbing Gao, Fuyin Zheng, Zhongde Mu, Yuanjin Zhao, Zhongze Gu

“…Here, a simple and green method was developed by utilizing butterfly wings (Morpho menelaus, Papilio ulysses telegonus and Ornithoptera croesus lydius) with natural anisotropic nanostructures to generate cell alignment. …”
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