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The Attalid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon
Pergamon

Pergamon or Pergamum was an ancient Ancient Greece city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, north-western Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic Greece, under the Attalid dynasty, 281–133 BC....
 after the death of Lysimachus
Lysimachus

Lysimachus was a Macedonian officer and Diadochi of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus in 306 BCE, ruling Thrace, Anatolia andMacedonia....
, a general of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
. The Attalid kingdom was the rump state
Rump state

A rump state is the remnant of a once-larger government, left with limited powers or authority after a disaster, invasion or military occupation....
 left after the collapse of the Lysimachian Empire
Lysimachus

Lysimachus was a Macedonian officer and Diadochi of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus in 306 BCE, ruling Thrace, Anatolia andMacedonia....
. One of Lysimachus' officers, Philetaerus
Philetaerus

File:Attalus_I_coin_depicting_Philetairos.jpgPhiletaerus was the founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon in Anatolia.He was born in Tieium , a small town on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia between Bithynia to the west and Paphlagonia to the east....
, took control of the city in 282 BC. The later Attalids were descended from his father, and they expanded the city into a kingdom. Attalus I
Attalus I

Attalus I , surnamed Soter ruled Pergamon, a Ionian Greek polis , first as dynast, later as king, from 241 BC to 197 BC. He was the second cousin and the adoptive son of Eumenes I, whom he succeeded, and was the first of the Attalid dynasty to assume the title of king in 238 BC....
 proclaimed himself King in the 230s BC, following his victories over the Galatia
Galatia

Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia, an ancient region of Asia Minor, was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace , who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC....
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The Attalid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon
Pergamon

Pergamon or Pergamum was an ancient Ancient Greece city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, north-western Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic Greece, under the Attalid dynasty, 281–133 BC....
 after the death of Lysimachus
Lysimachus

Lysimachus was a Macedonian officer and Diadochi of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus in 306 BCE, ruling Thrace, Anatolia andMacedonia....
, a general of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
. The Attalid kingdom was the rump state
Rump state

A rump state is the remnant of a once-larger government, left with limited powers or authority after a disaster, invasion or military occupation....
 left after the collapse of the Lysimachian Empire
Lysimachus

Lysimachus was a Macedonian officer and Diadochi of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus in 306 BCE, ruling Thrace, Anatolia andMacedonia....
. One of Lysimachus' officers, Philetaerus
Philetaerus

File:Attalus_I_coin_depicting_Philetairos.jpgPhiletaerus was the founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon in Anatolia.He was born in Tieium , a small town on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia between Bithynia to the west and Paphlagonia to the east....
, took control of the city in 282 BC. The later Attalids were descended from his father, and they expanded the city into a kingdom. Attalus I
Attalus I

Attalus I , surnamed Soter ruled Pergamon, a Ionian Greek polis , first as dynast, later as king, from 241 BC to 197 BC. He was the second cousin and the adoptive son of Eumenes I, whom he succeeded, and was the first of the Attalid dynasty to assume the title of king in 238 BC....
 proclaimed himself King in the 230s BC, following his victories over the Galatia
Galatia

Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia, an ancient region of Asia Minor, was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace , who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC....
ns. The Attalids ruled Pergamon until Attalus III
Attalus III

Attalus III Philometor Euergetes was the last Attalid king of Pergamon, ruling from 138 BC to 133 BC.He was the son of Eumenes II and wife Stratonike and the nephew of Attalus II, whom he succeeded....
 bequeathed the kingdom to the Roman Republic
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
 in 133 BC to avoid a likely succession crisis.

On the interior of the Pergamon Altar
Pergamon Altar

The Great Altar of Pergamon, a massive stone podium about one hundred feet long and thirty-five feet high, was originally built in the 2nd century BCE in the Ancient Greece city of Pergamon in north-western Anatolia, 25.74 kilometers from the Aegean Sea....
 is a frieze
Frieze

In architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain or?in the Ionic order or Corinthian order?decorated with bas-reliefs....
 depicting the life of Telephos, son of Herakles, whom the ruling Attalid dynasty associated with their city and utilized to claim descendance from the Olympians. Pergamon, having entered the Greek world much later than their counterparts to the west, could not boast the same divine heritage as older city-states, and had to retroactively cultivate their place in Greek mythos.

Dynasty of Pergamum


  • Philetaerus
    Philetaerus

    File:Attalus_I_coin_depicting_Philetairos.jpgPhiletaerus was the founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon in Anatolia.He was born in Tieium , a small town on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia between Bithynia to the west and Paphlagonia to the east....
     (282 BC–263 BC)
  • Eumenes I
    Eumenes I

    Eumenes I of Pergamon was dynast of the city of Pergamon in Asia Minor from 263 BC until his death in 241 BC. He was the son of Eumenes, the brother of Philetaerus, the founder of the Attalid dynasty, and Satyra, daughter of Poseidonius....
     (263 BC–241 BC)
  • Attalus I
    Attalus I

    Attalus I , surnamed Soter ruled Pergamon, a Ionian Greek polis , first as dynast, later as king, from 241 BC to 197 BC. He was the second cousin and the adoptive son of Eumenes I, whom he succeeded, and was the first of the Attalid dynasty to assume the title of king in 238 BC....
     Soter (241 BC–197 BC)
  • Eumenes II
    Eumenes II

    Eumenes II of Pergamon was king of Pergamon and a member of the Attalid dynasty. The son of king Attalus I and queen Apollonis, he followed in his father's footsteps and collaborated with the Ancient Rome to oppose first Ancient Macedonians, then Seleucid expansion towards the Aegean, leading to the defeat of Antiochus III the Great at th...
     (197 BC–159 BC)
  • Attalus II Philadelphus (160 BC–138 BC)
  • Attalus III
    Attalus III

    Attalus III Philometor Euergetes was the last Attalid king of Pergamon, ruling from 138 BC to 133 BC.He was the son of Eumenes II and wife Stratonike and the nephew of Attalus II, whom he succeeded....
     (138 BC–133 BC)
  • Eumenes III
    Eumenes III

    Eumenes III was the pretender to the throne of Pergamon.When the Pergamene King Attalus III died in 133 BC, he bequeathed his kingdom to the Roman Republic....
     Aristonicus (pretender, 133 BC–129 BC)


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