Histories

After the death of Alyattes, his son Croesus, then thirty-five years of age, came to the throne[*](Croesus' reign began in 560 B.C., probably.). The first Greeks whom he attacked were the Ephesians.

These, besieged by him, dedicated their city to Artemis; they did this by attaching a rope to the city wall from the temple of the goddess, which stood seven stades away from the ancient city which was then besieged.