Alyattes

Role: Lydian · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 10

Alyattes is identified as a Lydian and a contemporary of Astyages and Byzes. He sent a votive bowl to Apollo; only its iron base remains, and it was made by Glaucus of Chios, who first welded iron.

Relationship record

Life events

• Alyattes sent a votive bowl offering to Apollo, whose iron base alone remains.(Book 10 · Chapter 16)
  • With: Apollo
  • “Of the votive offerings which the Lydian kings sent to Apollo nothing now remains but the iron base of the bowl of Alyattes.”

Book 5 · Chapter 10

• with Astyages (They are contemporaries.) “This Byzes was a contemporary of Alyattes the Lydian and Astyages (the son of Cyaxaras) the king of Persia.”
• with Byzes (They were contemporaries.) “This Byzes was a contemporary of Alyattes the Lydian and Astyages (the son of Cyaxaras) the king of Persia.”

Book 10 · Chapter 16

• with Glaucus of Chios (Glaucus made the iron base of Alyattes's bowl.) “nothing now remains but the iron base of the bowl of Alyattes. This was made by Glaucus of Chios, who first welded iron”
• with Apollo (Alyattes's bowl was sent as a votive offering to Apollo.) “Of the votive offerings which the Lydian kings sent to Apollo nothing now remains but the iron base of the bowl of Alyattes.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.