Editing Alyattes (section)

===Wars against the Cimmerians===
[[File:Kimerian.jpg|thumb|250px|right|An Assyrian relief depicting Cimmerian mounted warriors]]
Alyattes had inherited more than one war from his father, and soon after his ascension and early during his reign, with [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Assyrian]] approval<ref>{{harvnb|Grousset|1970|p=[https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppesh00prof/page/8 9] |quote=A Scythian army, acting in conformity with Assyrian policy, entered Pontis to crush the last of the Cimmerians.}}</ref> and in alliance with the Lydians,{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=126}} the [[Scythians]] under their king [[Madyes]] entered Anatolia, expelled the Treres from Asia Minor, and defeated the Cimmerians so that they no longer constituted a threat again, following which the Scythians extended their domination to Central Anatolia<ref>{{cite journal |last=Phillips |first=E. D. |date=1972 |title=The Scythian Domination in Western Asia: Its Record in History, Scripture and Archaeology |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/123971 |journal=World Archaeology |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=129–138 |doi= 10.1080/00438243.1972.9979527|jstor=123971 |access-date=5 November 2021 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> until they were themselves expelled by the [[Medes]] from Western Asia in the 600s BCE.<ref name="Spalinger"/> This final defeat of the Cimmerians was carried out by the joint forces of Madyes, whom [[Strabo]] credits with expelling the Treres and Cimmerians from Asia Minor, and of Alyattes, whom [[Herodotus|Herodotus of Halicarnassus]] and [[Polyaenus]] claim finally defeated the Cimmerians.{{sfn|Ivantchik|1993a|p=95-125}}{{sfn|Ivantchik|2006|p=151}}

In Polyaenus' account of the defeat of the Cimmerians, he claimed that Alyattes used "war dogs" to expel them from Asia Minor, with the term "war dogs" being a Greek folkloric reinterpretation of young Scythian warriors who, following the Indo-European passage rite of the [[Kóryos|{{lang|ine-x-proto|kóryos}}]], would ritually take on the role of wolf- or dog-warriors.{{sfn|Ivantchik|1993b}}

Immediately after this first victory of his over the Cimmerians, Alyattes expelled from the Lydian borderlands a final remaining pocket of Cimmerian presence who had been occupying the nearby city of [[Antandrus]] for one century, and to facilitate this he re-founded the city of [[Adramyttium]] in [[Aeolis]]. Alyattes installed his son [[Croesus]] as the governor of Adramyttium, and he soon expelled these last remaining Cimmerians from Asia Minor. [[Adramyttium]] was moreso an important site for Lydia because it was situated near [[Atarneus]] and [[Astyra (Troad)|Astyra]], where rich mines were located.<ref name="Leloux-1"/>