. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. heCimmerians, and extended his dominion as far as the Halys, where hecame in contact with Cyaxares: he also conquered most of the Greekcities. The tomb of Alyattes, which Herodotus (i. 93) describes as onlyinferior to the monuments of Egypt and Babylon, is still extant. It isan immense mound of earth about half a mile in circumference. Inthe centre a sepulchural chamber has been recently , 560, raised the power of the Lydian throne to its highestpitch of greatness, his au
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. heCimmerians, and extended his dominion as far as the Halys, where hecame in contact with Cyaxares: he also conquered most of the Greekcities. The tomb of Alyattes, which Herodotus (i. 93) describes as onlyinferior to the monuments of Egypt and Babylon, is still extant. It isan immense mound of earth about half a mile in circumference. Inthe centre a sepulchural chamber has been recently , 560, raised the power of the Lydian throne to its highestpitch of greatness, his authority on the western side of the Halysbeing undisputed. He was conquered by Cyrus, and his territoriesadded to the Persian empiie; and thenceforth the histoiy of Lydiais involved in that of the peninsula generally. * Phoebi Qui tripodasj Clarii lauros, qui sidera sentis.—Yirg. ^-n. iii. 359. Mihi Delphica tellusEt Claros, et Tenedos, Pataraeaque regia servit.—Ov. Met, i. Clarius is an appropriate epithet of a poet :— Xec tantnm Clario Lyde dilecta poetee.—Ov. Tr^ist. i, 6, Coin of Smyrna. Chap. VII. ISLAND OF CHIOS. Ill >S^. Pauls Travels.—St. Pauls first visit to Lydia occurred in thecourse of his second apostolical journey, when he touched at Ephesuson his return from Greece: on that occasion his stay was but short(Acts xviii. 19-21). On his third journey he must have traversedLydia on his way from Phrygia to Ephesus. The route he pursued is amatter of conjecture: as he probably never visited Colossa), he mayhave descended the valley of the Hermus, and crossed from Sardis toEphesus. He remained in Ephesus three years, during which he ap-pears, from expressions in his Second Epistle to the Corinthians, tohave paid a short visit to Corinth. At the conclusion of his visit hewent northwards, probably by sea, to Troas (Acts xix.). § 21. Off the coast of Lydia lies the important island of Chios,Scio, separated from the mainland by a channel 5 miles in
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