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The Attalids of Pergamon. 2nd Ed. Revised and Expanded

1971réf. 2042575Cornell University Press 1971. 2. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Red cloth. 531 Minor shelf wear; light bumping at edges. Else a bright clean copy. In English. xxxvi 464 2 p. index bibliography and map. Vol. XXIX of Cornell studies in Classical Philology. The Attalids of Pergamon. Of the large circle of scholars and writers who enjoyed the patron- age of the Attalids only a few seem to have directed their attention to the history of the dynasty. Lysimachus the tutor of Attalus I wrote an account of the education of his royal pupil Ï€ÎµÏÎ¯ παιδείας Aттáλου a work the historical value of which was however compromised by its strong tendency to adulation Athen. VI 252c; FHG. III p. 2 = F. Gr. Hist. II B p. 895. Another member of the same literary group Neanthes who came from Cyzicus the birthplace of the wife of Attalus. / Four main rivers drain the western slope of Asia Minor the Caïcus the Hermus the Caÿster and the Maeander. The Caïcus the northernmost now called the Bakir-Tschaï is also the shortest its total course measuring only about fifty miles. The fertile plain through which the river flows forming the southwestern part of ancient Mysia is enclosed on all sides by mountains. On the north rises the great massif of the Madaras-Dag a spur from which projecting to the southwest was known in antiquity as the Pindasus. To the west of this ridge a broken mountain mass extends to the coast. / Table of Contents.; List of Abbreviations pp. xiv-xvi.; Introduction pp. xvii-xxi.; Illustrations pp. xxii-xxii.; CHAPTER I The Valley of the Caïcus.; CHAPTER II The Principate of Philetaerus and of Eumenes I.; CHAPTER III The Reign of Attalus I.; CHAPTER IV The Reign of Eumenes II.; CHAPTER V The Last Years of the Dynasty pp. 130-165.; CHAPTER VI The Kingdom of the Attalids pp. 166-233.; CHAPTER VII The Building Activity of the Attalids pp. 234-298.;. Cornell University Press hardcover

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