About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Attalid colonies, Attalid dynasty, Battles involving Pergamon, People from Pergamon, Pergamene sculpture, Wars involving Pergamon, Galen, Alcamenes, Battle of Cynoscephalae, Telesphorus, Pergamon Altar, Attalus I, War against Nabis, First Macedonian War, Cretan War, Antalya, Red Basilica, Galatian War, Alaşehir, Battle of Magnesia, Dying Gaul, Roman-Syrian War, Second Macedonian War, Battle of Gythium, Battle of Mount Olympus, Philetaerus, Pergamon Bridge, Gaddi Torso, Barberini Faun, Stratonice of Pergamon, Eumenes I, Kingdom of Pergamon, Arrotino, Third Macedonian War, Battle of Chios, Cratippus of Pergamon, Ludovisi Gaul, Nicander, Antipas of Pergamum, Eumenes II, Epigonus, Attalus III, Attalus II Philadelphus, Eumenes III, Antiochis, Mithridates I of the Bosporus, Stratonicea, Aeschrion of Pergamon, First Battle of Lamia, Second Battle of Lamia, Aristides of Thebes, Gambrion, Hegesinus of Pergamon, Carystius, Apollodorus of Pergamon, Hellenopolis. Excerpt: The Pergamon Altar is a monumental construction built during the reign of King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient city of Pergamon in Asia Minor. The structure is 35.64 meters wide and 33.4 meters deep; the front stairway alone is almost 20 meters wide. The base is decorated with a frieze in high relief showing the battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods known as the Gigantomachy. There is a second, smaller and less well preserved high relief frieze on the inner court walls which surround the actual fire altar on the upper level of the structure at the top of the stairs. It depicts, in a series of consecutive scenes, events from the life of Telephus, legendary founder of the city of Pergamon and son of the hero Heracles and Auge, a daughter of the Tegean king Aleus. In 1878 the Germ...
