Kerkenes

According to Herodotus, before going to war with the Persians, King Croesus of Lydia consulted the oracle at Delphi and received this answer: if he made war on the Persians, he would destroy a great empire. Croesus was delighted with the prophecy; after all, the empire to fall had to be the Persian one… Anyone who remembers the double-edged answers of those famous oracles, who told Byzas to settle “opposite the land of the blind,” can already guess how this story ends.