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The '''Attalid dynasty''' was a [[Hellenistic]] dynasty that ruled the city of [[Pergamon]] after the death of [[Lysimachus]], a general of [[Alexander the Great]]. One of Lysimachus' officers, [[Philetaerus]], took control of the city in [[282 BC]]. The Attalid kingdom was the rump state left after the collapse of the [[Lysimachus|Lysimachian Empire]]. The later Attalids were descended from his father, and they expanded the city into a kingdom. [[Attalus I]] proclaimed himself King in the [[230s BC]], following his victories over the Galatians. The Attalids ruled Pergamon until [[Attalus III]] bequeathed the kingdom to the Roman Republic in [[133 BC]] to avoid a likely [[succession crisis]].

On the interior of the [[Pergamon Altar]] is a separate frieze depicting the life of [[Telephos]], son of Herakles, whom the ruling Attalid dynasty associated with their city and utilized to claim descendance from the Olympians. Pergamon, having entered the Greek world much later than their counterparts to the west, could not boast the same divine heritage as older city-states, and had to retroactively cultivate their place in Greek mythos.

==Dynasty of Pergamum==

*[[Philetaerus]] ([[282 BC]]–[[263 BC]])
*[[Eumenes I]] ([[263 BC]]–[[241 BC]])
*[[Attalus I]] Soter ([[241 BC]]–[[197 BC]])
*[[Eumenes II]] ([[197 BC]]–[[158 BC]])
*[[Attalus II]] Philadelphus ([[160 BC]]–[[138 BC]])
*[[Attalus III]] ([[138 BC]]–[[133 BC]])
*[[Eumenes III]] Aristonicus (pretender, [[133 BC]]–[[129 BC]])

== Genealogy ==

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Attalus = Boa
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[[Philetaerus]] Eumenes = Satyra Attalus
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[[Eumenes I]] Philetaerus (?) Attalus = Antiochis Eumenes (?)
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[[Attalus I]] = Apollonis
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[[Eumenes II]] [[Attalus II]] Philetaerus Athenaeus
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[[Attalus III]] [[Eumenes III]]
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Note: the above is taken from Hansen pp. 26 and 45.

== Reference ==
*Hansen, Esther V. (1971). ''The Attalids of Pergamon''. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press; London: Cornell University Press Ltd. ISBN 0-8014-0615-3.
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	On the interior of the [[Pergamon Altar]] is a separate frieze depicting the life of [[Telephos]], son of Herakles, whom the ruling Attalid dynasty associated with their city and utilized to claim descendance from the Olympians. Pergamon, having entered the Greek world much later than their counterparts to the west, could not boast the same divine heritage as older city-states, and had to retroactively cultivate their place in Greek mythos.		On the interior of the [[Pergamon Altar]] is a separate frieze depicting the life of [[Telephos]], son of Herakles, whom the ruling Attalid dynasty associated with their city and utilized to claim descendance from the Olympians. Pergamon, having entered the Greek world much later than their counterparts to the west, could not boast the same divine heritage as older city-states, and had to retroactively cultivate their place in Greek mythos.

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 == Reference ==
 *Hansen, Esther V. (1971). ''The Attalids of Pergamon''. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press; London: Cornell University Press Ltd. ISBN 0-8014-0615-3.
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