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The Achaemenid Siege of Sardis and the Burning of Croesus
In this episode of The Achaemenid Empire: Persia's Golden Age of Power, Lucas and Luna explore a pivotal but often-overlooked episode in Cyrus the Great's conquest of Lydia: the siege of Sardis after the Battle of Thymbra. They examine how Cyrus, having defeated Croesus but failing to capture the Lydian capital, employed a daring assault on the acropolis led by a Persian soldier named Hyroiades. The conversation delves into the conflicting accounts of Croesus's fate—whether he was killed, taken captive, or, as Herodotus tells us, rescued from a pyre by Apollo. Lucas also discusses the…
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