Alyattes

Alyattes the Lydian, his war with the Milesians finished, died after a reign of fifty-seven years.

For Alyattes had supposed that there was great scarcity in Miletus and that the people were reduced to the last extremity of misery;

so presently the Lydians and Milesians ended the war and agreed to be friends and allies, and Alyattes built not one but two temples of Athena at Assesos, and recovered from his illness.

And Eudemus, in his Astrological Histories, says that Thales foretold the eclipse of the sun which occurred at the time when the Medes and the Lydians joined battle with one another, in the reign of Cyaxares, the father of Astyages, over the Medes, and of Alyattes, the father of Croesus, over the Lydians.