The Kingdom of Pergamum emerged from the great period of instability which followed the death of Alexander the Great and, over the next century, was to become one of the wealthiest states in the eastern Mediterranean. This volume surveys Pergamum's history from the late 3rd cent…
The Kingdom of Pergamum emerged from the great period of instability which followed the death of Alexander the Great and, over the next century, was to become one of the wealthiest states in the eastern Mediterranean. This volume surveys Pergamum's history from the late 3rd cent…
The Kingdom of Pergamum emerged from the great period of instability which followed the death of Alexander the Great and, over the next century, was to become one of the wealthiest states in the eastern Mediterranean. This volume surveys Pergamum's history from the late 3rd cent…
The Kingdom of Pergamum emerged from the great period of instability which followed the death of Alexander the Great and, over the next century, was to become one of the wealthiest states in the eastern Mediterranean. This volume surveys Pergamum's history from the late 3rd cent…
"In the sunny, austere central hall of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, wrapping around the room's walls like a serpent, then rising halfway to the ceiling on marble steps, stands a strident, if also fragmentary statement of empire. It is an unfinished wedding cake of a building. …
Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map - a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. What allowed the Attalids to make this map a reali…
"In the sunny, austere central hall of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, wrapping around the room's walls like a serpent, then rising halfway to the ceiling on marble steps, stands a strident, if also fragmentary statement of empire. It is an unfinished wedding cake of a building. …
Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map - a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. What allowed the Attalids to make this map a reali…
Acknowledgments -- List of figures, tables, and maps -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Eating with the tax-collectors -- The skeleton of the state -- The king's money -- Cities and other civic organisms -- Hastening to the gymnasium -- Pergamene Panhellenism -- Conclus…
Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map - a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. What allowed the Attalids to make this map a reali…
"In the sunny, austere central hall of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, wrapping around the room's walls like a serpent, then rising halfway to the ceiling on marble steps, stands a strident, if also fragmentary statement of empire. It is an unfinished wedding cake of a building. …
"In the sunny, austere central hall of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, wrapping around the room's walls like a serpent, then rising halfway to the ceiling on marble steps, stands a strident, if also fragmentary statement of empire. It is an unfinished wedding cake of a building. …