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The Battle of Thymbra: Cyrus the Great’s Greatest Victory

In 547 BC, the armies of Cyrus the Great faced Croesus of Lydia, the richest king of the ancient world. What began as a clash between East and West became one of history’s most brilliant military campaigns. On one side stood Croesus, the richest king of the ancient world, commanding a vast Lydian army of Greeks, Babylonians, and mercenaries. On the other — Cyrus the Great, the young Persian conqueror who had already overthrown the Medes and united Iran under his banner. This epic battle would decide the future of the ancient Near East. With strategic brilliance, Cyrus used camels, chariots, and deception to outmaneuver Croesus’s cavalry and deliver a decisive victory. Soon after, the Persians marched on Sardis, besieging the Lydian capital in a daring winter campaign. When the city fell, the world expected revenge — but instead, Cyrus showed mercy. A storm extinguished the flames meant to consume Croesus, saving his life. In this act of divine irony and compassion, the legend of Cyrus the Great was born. In this episode: The rebellion of Armenia and Cyrus’s diplomacy The alliance of Lydia, Babylon, Egypt, and Sparta The winter campaign through Cappadocia The Battle of Thymbra and the fall of Sardis The fate and redemption of Croesus Step into the world of ancient empires — where faith, fate, and strategy shaped the destiny of civilizations. 👉 Subscribe for the next episode — Cyrus vs Croesus: The Conquest of Lydia! 00:00 Quote 00:43 Coming up 01:26 Rebellion in Armenia 02:08 The Armenian Campaign 05:39 Croesus’s strategy against Persia 07:38 Cyrus’s march westward 11:17 Cyrus’s winter campaign 14:01 Battle of Thymbra 20:56 The Siege of Sardis 24:18 The capture of Croesus 25:57 Post-conquest difficulties 26:21 End of the Fourth Episode --------------------------------------- sources: Cyrus the Great: Founder of the Persian Empire / A.Shapour Shahbazi King Of The World: The Life Of Cyrus The Great / Matt Waters Tarikh Jame Iran, Volume One and Two - Political History of the Achaemenid Empire / Mohammad Taghi Iman Pour From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire / Pierre Briant The Persian Empire from Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I / Maria Brosius The History of Media / Igrar Aliyev World History Series - Ancient Mesopotamia / Don Nardo The Oxford handbook of Iranian history / Touraj Daryaee Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War / Kaveh Farrokh The Persians (Peoples of the Ancient World) / Maria Brosius The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC / John Boardman, I. E. S. Edwards, E. Sollberger, N. G. L. Hammond A Survey of Neo-Elamite History / Matthew W Waters Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian King / Touraj Daryaee Cyropaedia / Xenophon The History / Herodotus Persica / Ctesias Desert City Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Farya Faraji music: https://faryafaraji.bandcamp.com/music #CyrusTheGreat #PersianEmpire #BattleOfThymbra #Croesus #AchaemenidEmpire #AncientPersia #Lydia #Sardis #AncientHistory #EpicHistory #IranHistory #WorldHistory #HistoryDocumentary #HistoricalEpic #AncientWarfare #Herodotus