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Composed in 1732 the Opera action takes place in Sardes (today the Sart village, to the east of the town of Izmir, in Turkey), a capital of Lydia. The Lydian King Haliate refused his son Argone the right of succession, and transferred it to his illegitimate son Melo. Argone revolted against his father, and proclaimed himself King. Returning from the war, Haliate finds the gates of Sardes closed. With his army, he begins a siege of the capital of his own empire. The title character of the opera Sosarmes can most probably be identified with the important Median ruler Kyaxares.

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