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"Croesus and Fate" (AKA: "Croesus and Solon") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy that is a retelling of a Greek legend, classically told by Herodotus, and...3 KB (408 words) - 13:47, 5 May 2024
Croesus (/ˈkriːsəs/ KREE-səs; Lydian: 𐤨𐤭𐤬𐤥𐤦𐤮𐤠𐤮 Krowisas; Phrygian: Akriaewais; Ancient Greek: Κροῖσος, romanized: Kroisos; Latin: Croesus; reigned:...42 KB (5,100 words) - 19:59, 10 July 2024
Damocles (section Use in culture, art, and literature)Ionic columns, and in later cover art for the song, which features the impaled head of a black man wearing a crown. Croesus and Fate "Sword of Damocles"...22 KB (2,146 words) - 22:39, 28 July 2024
Master and Man (Хозяин и работник, 1895) Father Sergius (Отец Сергий, 1890–1898) The Forged Coupon (Фальшивый купон, 1902–1904) "Croesus and Fate" (adaptation...23 KB (935 words) - 09:49, 20 August 2024- king Croesus had a dream, in which he saw his son Atys killed by a spear. As a result, Croesus, seeking to prevent or stave off the foreseen fate, had...1 KB (195 words) - 19:21, 14 May 2024
- Eugene Irtenev and his brother, are left a large inheritance after the death of their father. However, the inheritance is saddled with debts, and the brothers...3 KB (498 words) - 08:56, 30 July 2024
Leo Tolstoy (redirect from Leo Tolstoy's Legacy in Russia and Beyond)about their eternal salvation, chose voluntary poverty when fate had denied this to them and they had been born in wealth. Thus Buddha Sakyamuni was born...96 KB (10,139 words) - 23:08, 14 August 2024- response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the Russian author and thinker for India's independence from colonial rule. The letter was published...4 KB (429 words) - 15:05, 25 August 2024
- directed by Avdotya Smirnova. It stars Aleksey Smirnov, Yevgeny Kharitonov and Irina Gorbacheva. The premiere of the film in Russia was on 6 September 2018...5 KB (328 words) - 12:04, 17 June 2024
- Valentin Bulgakov and others to the deathbed scene who were not, in fact, present). The various narrators, and others in the Tolstoy household and outside of...5 KB (668 words) - 03:21, 12 July 2024
Vladimir Chertkov (section Life and career)– November 9, 1936) was one of the editors of the works of Leo Tolstoy, and one of the most prominent Tolstoyans. After the revolutions of 1917, Chertkov...11 KB (1,485 words) - 16:51, 26 July 2024
cauldron underneath, and bronze is the lid.] Delphi was declared the winner. Croesus then asked if he should make war on the Persians and if he should take...28 KB (4,061 words) - 20:53, 10 June 2024
Cyrus the Great (section Rise and military campaigns)suffering heavy casualties by nightfall. Croesus retreated to Sardis the following morning. While in Sardis, Croesus sent out requests for his allies to send...113 KB (12,790 words) - 12:58, 22 August 2024- Lydia after the Siege of Sardis which ended in early 546 BC, but the fate of Croesus himself is uncertain. Consanguineous relatives of Gyges Herodotus...11 KB (1,063 words) - 14:47, 24 July 2024
by Adrastus (1.34–44) Croesus's test of the oracles (1.46–54) The answer from the Oracle of Delphi concerning whether Croesus should attack the Persians...74 KB (8,621 words) - 09:30, 24 August 2024- List of Disney's Hercules characters (redirect from Pain and Panic)seriously. Croesus (voiced by Wayne Newton) is the richest man in the world and owner of Atlantis City, whose vast wealth causes the Gods and the Fates...81 KB (12,613 words) - 19:46, 7 August 2024
- Persian conquest of Sardis linking the fate of Croesus to this god. However, Apollo is still unattested in Lydia, and it is unknown whether there was any...34 KB (4,085 words) - 13:51, 17 August 2024
Pleasures of Sin - Sahar 1965: Gate of Fate 1965: Darvazehe taghdir 1965: The Bride of the Sea - Maryam 1965: Croesus' Treasure - Ganjeh Gharoon 1965: Dah...6 KB (597 words) - 04:35, 23 June 2024- Greek historiography provides a famous variant: when the Lydian king Croesus asked the Delphic Oracle if he should invade Persia, the response came...40 KB (5,101 words) - 02:08, 24 July 2024
ambiguous answer that "if Croesus was to cross the Halys he would destroy a great empire". Blind to the ambiguity of this prophecy, Croesus attacked the Persians...94 KB (11,369 words) - 20:27, 10 July 2024
- by Croesus, but could not understand them. So he commanded Croesus to be taken from the pile, and inquired of him what he had just said. Croesus answered :
- that there's one thing that time and humankind will not be able to take away from me, leaving me rich, richer than Croesus: the bliss that I derive from
- According to the legend, Croesus contacted the Oracle before his attack on Pteria. The Oracle suggested vaguely that, "if King Croesus should cross the Halys