AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to

Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago

The Lydian king Croesus attacked the Iranian king Cyrus after an oracle foretold that “a mighty empire would be destroyed” if he did so. The empire that fell was his own.

en.wikipedia.org

2

62

The Lydian king Croesus attacked the Iranian king Cyrus after an oracle foretold that “a mighty empire would be destroyed” if he did so. The empire that fell was his own.

en.wikipedia.org

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to

Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago

2

Croesus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You must log in or # to comment.

Chat

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
7·
24 days ago
Inshallah.
drolex@sopuli.xyz
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
4·
24 days ago

Yes, King Croesus the Average, Apollo-God tells me that you should totally attack King Cyrus the Greaaaaaat, it’s a very good idea 🤭

Wikipedia@lemmy.world

wikipedia@lemmy.world

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !wikipedia@lemmy.world

A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.

Rules:

Only links to Wikipedia permitted
Please stick to the format “Article Title (other descriptive text/editorialization)”
Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails
On Casual Tuesdays, we allow submissions from wikis other than Wikipedia.

Recommended:

Use the search box to see if someone has previously submitted an article. Some apps will also notify you if you are resubmitting an article previously shared on Lemmy.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

97 users / day
859 users / week
2.73K users / month
6.44K users / 6 months
60 local subscribers
4.9K subscribers
4.53K Posts
12.3K Comments
Modlog