The richest man who the Greeks ever knew meets the oracle that destroys him.

Herodotus begins his Histories with Croesus of Lydia: golden rivers, a doomed prophecy, and the first great clash between East and West.

The chapter that starts it all.

Episode 1 MUSIC

Folk Round by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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