Kroisos: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Kroisos''' ({{IPAc-en|icon|ˈ|k|r|iː|s|ə|s}} {{respell|KREE|səs}}; {{lang-grc|Κροῖσος}}, ''Kroisos''; 595 [[SM]]&nbsp;– ''sek.'' 547? SM) adalah [[pemimpin monarki|raja]] [[Lydia]] pada tahun 560 hingga 547 SM, ketika dia dikalahkan oleh [[Kekaisaran Akhemeniyah|Persia]].<ref>The English name ''Croesus'' comes from the [[Latin language|Latin]] [[transliteration]] of the [[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|Κροῖσος}}, in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] قارون, ''Qârun''.</ref> Kejatuhan Kroisos memberikan dampak yang besar terhadap [[Bangsa Yunani|bangsa Hellen]], memberikan titik pas dalam kalender mereka. "Setidaknya pada abad kelimkelima," J.A.S. Evans mencermati, "Kroisos telah menjadi tokoh mitos, yang berada di luas batas kronologi konvensional."<ref>J.A.S. Evans, "What Happened to Croesus?" ''The Classical Journal'' '''74'''.1 (October 1978:34-40) examines the legend and the date 547 BC.</ref> Kroisos terkenal atas kekayaannya; [[Herodotos]] dan [[Pausanias (geografer)|Pausanias]] mencermati hadiahnya yang tersimpan di [[Delphi]].<ref>Among them a lion of gold, which had tumbled from its perch upon a stack of ingots when the [[temple]] at [[Delphi]] burned but was preserved and displayed in the Treasury of the Corinthians, where Pausanias saw it (Pausanias 10.5.13). The temple burned in the archonship of Erxicleides, 548-47 BC.</ref>