The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia : money, culture, and state power /

"In the sunny, austere central hall of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, wrapping around the room's walls like a serpent, then rising halfway to the ceiling on marble steps, stands a strident, if also fragmentary statement of empire. It is an unfinished wedding cake of a building. Tourists re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kaye, Noah, 1984- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:	Attalid dynasty, > 282-133 B.C. Attalides, 282-133 av. J.-C. Money > Turkey > Bergama. Pergamum (Extinct city) Bergama (Turkey) > History. Bergama (Turkey) > Politics and government. Bergama (Turquie) > Histoire. HISTORY / Ancient / General. Money Politics and government Turkey > Bergama Turkey > Pergamum (Extinct city) Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of figures, tables, and maps
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Eating with the tax-collectors
The skeleton of the state
The king's money
Cities and other civic organisms
Hastening to the gymnasium
Pergamene Panhellenism
Conclusion
Appendix of epigraphical documents
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General index.