He conquered, as Ctesias narrates, Egypt, Phoenicia, Coele Syria, Cilicia, lycia and Caria, Lydia, Mysia, Phrygia, Bithynia, and Cappadocia, and reduced the nations on the Pontus as far as the Tanais.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
Other noteworthy relics of early Asiatic architecture are the tombs of lycia, Phrygia, and Lydia.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
More ornate than those of lycia, the Phrygian sepulchral monuments, of which the grave of Midas at Doganlu is the finest, are also rock hewn, but their shape and decoration are more suggestive of the tent than the wooden dwelling, whilst those in Lydia are comparatively primitive, being in some cases, notably in the Tumulus of Tantalus on the Gulf of Smyrna, mere masses of stone heaped up above a huge mound.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
