Sardis

Lydia

Sardis was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia in western Asia Minor (modern Sart, Turkey), later a major city under Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman rule. It figures in Xenophon's Anabasis as the gathering point from which Cyrus the Younger launched his expedition. The sophist and historian Eunapius, author of the Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists, was a native of Sardis.