CLAS 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Antiochus Hierax, Attalid Dynasty, Heinrich Brunn
20 Apr 2017
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Under him, pergamum developed a strong, professional army, and that he put this army to great effect. Defeated the gauls many times, he also engaged with antiochus hierax, sometimes both at same time. Because of these victories, see attalus i become the first to take the title king. They do back date the reign to philetaerus, just propaganda. Pergamum and its king seen as protectors of greek culture. Participated in both 1st and 2nd macedonian wars, on romes side. During the 2nd macedonian war, attalus defended the pireus in athens vs philip v. got civic honors from athens, and he made dedications on the acropolis. Took form of mythical figures that commemorated greek victories over barbarians, so amazons, persians, gauls etc. Think we have copies of sculptures attalus made for the acropolis. Pausanias said: south wall has dedications for the war of giants, amazons, persians and gauls. This is usually notted as the lesser attalid group.
