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From: phoenix@genat.UUCP (phoenix)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Who is Croesus? ( *spoiler* )
Message-ID: <2621@genat.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Mar-86 17:12:34 EST
Article-I.D.: genat.2621
Posted: Sat Mar 29 17:12:34 1986
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References: <3060@ut-ngp.UUCP> <2609@genat.UUCP> <2027@hao.UUCP>
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Organization: Phoenix Temporal Restorations, Ultd.
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Keywords: Greek history
Summary: last King of Lydia (c560-540 BC)

In article <2027@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>> The name you should give to the Vault Guardian is:  Croesus.  (
>> (get the joke?)
>
>  I must be really dumb, because everyone is acting like this is so obvious,
>but no, I don't get the joke.
>
>--Greg

Croesus (or Kroisos) was the last King of Lydia around 550 BC.  His wealth
was proverbial.  He was a client of the Oracle at Delphi, where a number of
his gifts to the Oracle were seen by Herodotus.  Fragments of columns from
the temple of Artemis at Ephesus have upon them a dedication by Croesus in
Greek.  He is a historical personage, not a mythic one, so digging out a
Greek mythology book will not help you much.  It is thought that Aesop (as
in Aesop's Fables) worked for Croesus, as well.
-- 
					The Phoenix
					(Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young)


---"A man should live forever...or die trying."
---"There is no substitute for good manners...except fast reflexes."
---"Never appeal to a man's "better nature".  He may not have one.
    Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."