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Most of the datable inscriptions from Sardis before the Hellenistic period use the Lydian language and alphabet.
And the idea of the other modalities being introduced as complements to the Lydian mode, was added.
A tablet was turned up which revealed a bilingual inscription in Lydian and Aramaic.
The use of coins reached Persia from the Lydian kingdom of Croesus and the Persian satrapies of Asia Minor.
Book two of Plato's Republic tells the story of a Lydian shepherd who stumbles upon the ancient ring of the Gyges while minding his flock.
The Persians, however, did not keep this commitment and continued to encroach on Lydian territory.
Some of the artefacts you helped return to Turkey are Lydian,Greek and Roman.
Phrygian and Lydian modes occur and these give great diversity to the melodic structure.
The proponents of the Lydian coins scenario admit the fact that they were likely not used in commerce or industry.
Early results concerning Lydian were reached using a strictly combinatory method.
Why does he start and leap amain, And scour the sandy Lydian plain Like one who wants to catch a train, Or wrestles with internal pain?
Lydian grammar shows that the language belongs to the same subgroup as Hittite and Luwian of the 2nd millennium and Lycian of the 1st millennium.
Fans of archaeology shouldn't miss the Istanbul Archaeological Museums which are exhibiting the Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great and various Lydian tombs.
At the beginning of the second book of Plato's Republic, Glaucon challenges Socrates, and his idea of justice, with a myth concerning the ancestor of Gyges, the Lydian.
Every leading Classical composer, through Brahms, always used the Lydian mode and its Mozart treatment of Bach's Royal Theme, as a reference point of composition.
Their unfamiliar appearance and smell so unsettled the enemy horses that the Lydian troopers were forced to dismount and fight on foot, where they were decisively defeated.
Caria passed from Lydian to Persian rule about 546 bc.
The Lydian and later the Macedonian kings, as rulers of the same rank, also became Heracleidae.
The Doric, Lydian, and Phrygian modes, owing to their combination of basic rhythms, were regarded as able to express various moods.
Thus, both the mournful Mixolydian and Syntono-lydian harmoniai, and the 'slack' Iastian and Lydian are rejected from the Socratic city-state.
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Be welcome to my house and take some repose after your wild, thoroughly Lydian, ride.
The pride of the Hellene is further humbled, by being compared to a Phrygian or Lydian.
The harmonies which you mean are the mixed or tenor Lydian, and the full-toned or bass Lydian, and such like.
The Dorian measure was grave and severe, the Lydian soft and effeminate.
The most ancient Lydian coins are likewise made of electrum.
At the age of thirty-five Croesus ascended the Lydian throne.
These may afford the key to the decipherment of both Lydian and Etruscan.
In that case Oroetes must provide us with the uniform of Lydian Taxiarchs.
The seven major modes include Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian, beginning on C, D, E, F, G, A, and B, respectively.
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