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Many remains of its monuments can still be seen and especially the masterpiece of the Pergamon Altar. [2] Pergamon was the northernmost of the seven churches of Asia cited in the New Testament Book of Revelation. [3] The city is centered on a 335-metre-high (1,100 ft) mesa of andesite, which formed its acropolis. This mesa falls away sharply on ...
The Kingdom of Pergamon, Pergamene Kingdom, or Attalid kingdom was a Greek state during the Hellenistic period that ruled much of the Western part of Asia Minor from its capital city of Pergamon. It was ruled by the Attalid dynasty ( / ˈ æ t əl ɪ d / ; Greek : Δυναστεία των Ατταλιδών , romanized : Dynasteía ton ...
The Library of Pergamum (Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη του Πέργαμον) is an ancient Greek building in Pergamon, Anatolia, today located nearby the modern town of Bergama, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey. It was one of the most important libraries in the ancient world. [2]
The reconstructed Pergamon Altar in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Side view Carl Humann's 1881 plan of the Pergamon acropolis. The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου) was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in Asia Minor ...
In Greek mythology, Pergamus (/ ˈ p ɜːr ɡ ə m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πέργαμος) was the son of the warrior Neoptolemus and Andromache.Pergamus's parents both figure in the Trojan War, described in Homer's The Iliad: Neoptolemus was the son of Achilles and fought on the Greek side, while Andromache was the Trojan prince Hector's wife.
In 1908, the former metropolitan district was promoted to a diocese and in 1905 its see was transferred to Pergamon . [1] In February 1922, while most of the region was part of the Greek-controlled Smyrna Zone, the metropolis of Pergamon and Adramyttium was established as part of the general reforms in local religious administration. [2]
Many of these towns fell under the protection or direct control of the Kingdom of Pergamon, whose king, Eumenes I, agreed to pay the Gauls tribute in return for their protection against the barbarians. This situation changed with the ascendancy of Attalus I (believed to be the second cousin [2] or the grandnephew [3] of Eumenes I) in the year ...
The name of Elaea occurs in the history of the kings of Pergamum. According to Strabo, from Livy (xxxv. 13), travellers who would reach Pergamum from the sea, would land at Elaea. [ 4 ] One of the passages of Livy shows that there was a small hill (tumulus) near Elaea, and that the town was in a plain and walled.