The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia: Money, Culture, and State Power

462 Pages·2022·7.959 MB·English

by  Noah Kaye

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The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia
Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of
Pergamonafter188BCE.TheRoman-brokeredSettlementofApameiaoffered
a new map – a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern
Aegean. What allowed the Attalids to make this map a reality and leave their
indelible Pergamene imprint on our Classical imagination? In this uniquely
comprehensive study of the political economy of the kingdom, Noah Kaye
rethinks the impact of Attalid imperialism on the Greek polis and the multi-
culturalcharacterofthedynasty’snotoriouspropaganda.Bysynthesizingnew
findings in epigraphy, archaeology, and numismatics, he shows the kingdom
for the first time from the inside. The Pergamene way of ruling was a
distinctively noncoercive and efficient means of taxing and winning loyalty.
Royaltaxcollectorscollaboratedwithcityandvillageofficialsonbudgetsand
minting,whilethekingsutterlytransformedthecivicspaceofthegymnasium.
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isAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofHistoryatMichigan
State University. He is an ancient historian who has worked extensively
throughout the eastern Mediterranean, in Greece, where he was the Heinrich
Schliemann Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; in
Israel,wherehewasaFulbrightPostdoctoralFellowattheUniversityofHaifa;
and in Turkey, where he was a Senior Fellow at the Koç University Research
Center for Anatolian Civilizations. He has conducted and published archaeo-
logical fieldwork in Greece (Molyvoti Thrace Archaeological Project) and
Turkey (Boğsak Archaeological Survey, Cilicia). He is also an epigrapher and
a numismatist, and has contributed to the multilingual corpus of inscriptions
CorpusInscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae.

The Attalids of Pergamon
and Anatolia
Money, Culture, and State Power
 
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Contents
List of Figures [page viii]
List of Graphs [x]
List of Maps [xi]
Acknowledgments [xii]
List of Abbreviations [xv]
Introduction [1]
1 Eating with the Tax Collectors [34]
2 The Skeleton of the State [74]
3 The King’s Money [129]
4 Cities and Other Civic Organisms [188]
5 Hastening to the Gymnasium [234]
6 Pergamene Panhellenism [283]
Conclusion [354]
Appendixof EpigraphicalDocuments [364]
Bibliography [370]
Index Locorum [425]
Subject Index [433]
Figures
1.1 Ilgın Plain, vicinity of ancient Toriaion [page 63]
2.1 The Roman Via Sebaste, retracing an earlier Attalid route, emerges
from the Klimax Pass (Döşeme Boğazı) into the plain
of Pamphylia [122]
3.1 Silver tetradrachm of Eumenes II minted in the name
of Philetairos [132]
3.2 Silver tetradrachm of Side minted ca. 210–190 BCE, bearing
countermark of bow-in-case + ΠΕΡ [133]
3.3 CistophoricsilvertetradrachmofPergamon,ca.160–150BCE [134]
3.4 Cistophoric silver didrachm of Tralles, ca. 145–140 BCE [135]
3.5 Cistophoric silver drachm, ca. 134–128 BCE [135]
3.6 Standing serpent on reverse of large module (hemiobol?) bronze coin
in the name of Philetairos, ca. 270s–200 BCE [138]
3.7 Fragmentary bedroom scene from the Telephos Frieze with standing
serpent warning hero and Auge [139]
3.8 Silver tetradrachm of Eumenes II, ca. 166–162 BCE [143]
3.9 Silver tetradrachm in the name of Athena Nikephoros, reign of
Eumenes II, ca. 180–165 BCE [143]
3.10 Silver drachm of Ephesus with legend “of the Ephesians,”
ca. 150 BCE [144]
3.11 “Wreathed” silver tetradrachm of Myrina, ca. 160–135 BCE [146]
3.12 Cistophoric silver tetradrachm of Ephesus, ca. 150–140 BCE [152]
3.13 Proconsularcistophoricsilvertetradrachm,signedbyC.Pulcherand
Aristokles, 55–53 BCE [155]
4.1 Hellenistic grave stele of Doidalses from Mustafakemalpaşa [208]
4.2 The Çan Sarcophagus from the Granikos Valley, early
fourth century BCE [217]
4.3 Late Hellenistic bronze coin of the Mysoi Abbaeitai [220]
5.1 Plan of the gymnasium of Pergamon in relation to adjacent
monuments and current reconstruction of street grid [239]
5.2 Gymnasium of Pergamon, looking east across the palaistra of the
upper terrace [239]
List of Figures ix
5.3 Hellenistic Sikyon, view east/southeast from the terraces of the city’s
gymnasium toward the adjacent agora [273]
6.1 Yığma Tepe [298]
6.2 View to the southwest of the Kaikos Valley from the acropolis
of Pergamon [307]
6.3 Model of ancient Athens [308]
6.4 Model of Hellenistic Pergamon [309]
6.5 Archaic terrace walls of Sardis, reconstruction drawing by
Philip Stinson [311]
6.6 Late Hellenistic terraces at Arykanda [312]
6.7 Late Hellenistic Pergamene market building of the unidentified city at
Melli in Pisidia [341]
6.8 LateHellenisticfriezeofGigantomachyintheagoraoftheunidentified
city at Melli in Pisidia [343]
6.9 Left: reverse of silver tetradrachm of Demetrios II depicting Athena
Magarsia, ca. 145–142 BCE; right: reverse of silver tetradrachm in the
name of Athena Nikephoros, reign of Eumenes II, ca.
180–165 BCE [348]
Graphs
1.1 Philanthropic foundations of the Hellenistic world [page 37]
1.2 Royal gifts of money [38]
1.3 Royal gifts of grain [38]
5.1 Royal gifts to gymnasia [237]