Diary (February 24, 2013)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday February 24, 2013.

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Croesus the Miser in Cyberspace

CROESUS the MISER in CYBERSPACE

Being the life of Croesus, miser in spirit despite kingship over the world, and his war against [within? because of? in alliance with?] Cyberspace

Idea, phrase ... the title of a Greek tragedy, only modern and semi-absurd ...

Croesus the Miser in Cyberspace

• Croesus @ Wikipedia - (/ˈkriːsəs/ KREE-səs; Ancient Greek: Κροῖσος, Kroisos; 595 BC – date of death unknown) was the king of Lydia who, according to Herodotus, reigned for 14 years: from 560 BC until his defeat by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 546 BC (sometimes given as 547 BC). Croesus was renowned for his wealth; Herodotus and Pausanias noted that his gifts were preserved at Delphi. The fall of Croesus had a profound effect on the Greeks, providing a fixed point in their calendar. "By the fifth century at least," J. A. S. Evans has remarked, "Croesus had become a figure of myth, who stood outside the conventional restraints of chronology.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles