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Alyattes II, king of Lydia (609-560 BC), the real founder of the Lydian empire[?], was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the Mermnadae[?].
On May 28, 585 BC, during a battle on the Halys[?] against Cyaxares[?], king of Media, a solar eclipse took place (see also Thales); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms.
Alyattes drove the Cimmerii (see Scythia) from Asia, subdued the Carians[?], and took several Ionian cities (Smyrna, Colophon).
ALYATTES, king of Lydia (609-560 B.C.), the real founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the Mermnadae.
On the 28th of May 585, during a battle on the Halys between him and Cyaxares, king of Media, an eclipse of the sun took place; hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms.
His tomb still exists on the plateau between lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of Sardis - a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones.
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