Sardis

As Herodotus tells it, Croesus, King of Lydia and reckoned the richest ruler in the world, once hosted the Athenian sage Solon at his palace and, after showing him around his treasures, asked him: who is the happiest man in the world? Croesus expected to hear his own name, but Solon gave him a plain answer: no one can be called happy until we have seen how he ends his days… But how seriously could such words have been taken in a palace full of gold?