Word: lydian
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...Lydian String Quartet: Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University, noon...
...Lydian String Quartet: chamber music, Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University, Waltham, noon...
...foot of spectacular Tmolus mountain, birthplace of the wine god Bacchus. Sardis once served as the capital of the great Lydian Fmpire. Surrounded by the abundant agricultural and grazing land which was the heartland of Lydia. Sardis symbolized luxury, sophistication, and sumptuous wealth...
...ancient times were fascinated by Sardis. According to legend, the city was founded by sons of Heracles after the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer writes of the city "beneath the snowy Tmolus in the rich land of Hyde." The poet Sappho laments that she cannot obtain the colorful Lydian hat of Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending a rain shower...
CLASSICAL: The Lydian String Quartet; music of Ravel, Schumann and Haydn; Slosberg Music Center; Saturday...