The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia money, culture, and state power Noah Kaye

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaye, Noah, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attalid dynasty, 282-133 B.C.

Attalid dynasty.

Money--Turkey--Bergama.

Money.

Pergamum (Extinct city).

Bergama (Turkey)--History.

Bergama (Turkey).

Bergama (Turkey)--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Turkey--Bergama.

Turkey--Pergamum (Extinct city).

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023

Summary:

"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 recline languidly on its ascent, like guests with nowhere to sit. The room is just too small; it is overtaken by the object on display ̣- The Great Altar of Pergamon. The Altar, with its two sculptural friezes, the outer, depicting the Battle of Gods and Giants, the inner, the tale of Telephos, son of Herakles and heroic ancestor of the Attalid dynasty, was discovered in 1871, the year in which the Second German Empire was born. The engineer Karl Humann stumbled upon the marble fragments while building infrastructure for Ottoman Turkey, making the Altar as we know it a pure product of German, French and British competition for influence in the Middle East. Today, Turkey has regained confidence, and officials from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation expect Ankara to ask for it back"-- Provided by publisher

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2022)

Other Format:

Print version Kaye, Noah, 1984- Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia

ISBN:

9781009038935

1009038931

9781009279567

1009279564

OCLC:

1266201717

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