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Attalus however refused to pay them, being the first such ruler recorded to do so. [11] As a consequence, the Galatians set out to attack Pergamon, sometime around 238–235 BC. [12] Attalus met them near the sources of the river Caicus and decisively won the resulting Battle of the Caecus River. [13]
Attalus II Philadelphus (Greek: Ἄτταλος ὁ Φιλάδελφος, Attalos II Philadelphos, which means "Attalus the brother-loving"; 220–138 BC) was a ruler of the Attalid kingdom of Pergamon and the founder of the city of Attalia.
To the right there is a square situated at a height of 2.5 meters above the temple's level, on a specially made terrace, constructed under order of the king Attalus I of Pergamon (240–197 B.C.). The square encloses a total surface of about 1000 sq m (measuring 41×23 meters) and constituted an extension of the temple area to the east.
Attalus III, ruled 138 BC–133 BC; Attalus, father of Philetaerus the founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon; Attalus, father of Attalus I of Pergamon; Attalus (general) (390–336 BC), courtier and general of Philip II of Macedonia; Attalus (son of Andromenes) (fl. 330–317 BC), general of Alexander the Great and Perdiccas
Attalus was born in Lower Macedonia in 390 BC. [1] In 338 BC, [2] Attalus's adopted niece Cleopatra Eurydice married king Philip II of Macedonia. It is said that at the wedding, Attalus made a prayer that Cleopatra may give birth to a legitimate male heir to Philip. This was seen as a direct insult to Alexander the Great. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Attalus (Ancient Greek: Ἄτταλος) was an ancient Greek philosopher in the Second Sophistic tradition, who lived during the second century CE. He was the son of the renowned sophist Polemon of Laodicea , and grandfather of a sophist named Hermocrates of Phocaea .
By 220 BC, Attalus I is recorded as holding important games in Athena's honor, and likely expanding the precincts of Athena's temple. At some point at either the end of Attalus I's rule or near the start of Eumenes II's rule, Athena was given the local title Nikephoros, "bestower of victory." Eumenes II would create a magnificent new two-story ...
[2] In 200 BCE, during the Second Macedonian War, while the Romans and the forces of Attalus I besieged Oreus (on Euboea), Pteleum was attacked by part of Attalus' army. [3] In 192 BCE, Antiochus III landed at Pteleum in order to carry on the war against the Romans in Greece. [4]