In English. [xxxvi], 464, [2] p., index, bibliography, and map. Vol. XXIX of Cornell studies in Classical Philology. The Attalids of Pergamon. Of the large circle of scholars and writers who enjoyed the patron- age of the Attalids only a few seem to have directed their attention to the history of the dynasty. Lysimachus, the tutor of Attalus I, wrote an account of the education of his royal pupil (περί παιδείας Aттáλου), a work the historical value of which was, however, compromised by its strong tendency to adulation (Athen. VI 252c; FHG. III, p. 2 = F. Gr. Hist. II B, p. 895). Another member of the same literary group, Neanthes, who came from Cyzicus, the birthplace of the wife of Attalus... / Four main rivers drain the western slope of Asia Minor, the Caïcus, the Hermus, the Caÿster, and the Maeander. The Caïcus, the northernmost, now called the Bakir-Tschaï, is also the shortest, its total course measuring only about fifty miles. The fertile plain through which the river flows, forming the southwestern part of ancient Mysia, is enclosed on all sides by mountains. On the north rises the great massif of the Madaras-Dag, a spur from which, projecting to the southwest, was known in antiquity as the Pindasus. To the west of this ridge a broken mountain mass extends to the coast,... / Table of Contents.; List of Abbreviations (pp. xiv-xvi).; Introduction (pp. xvii-xxi).; [Illustrations] (pp. xxii-xxii).; CHAPTER I The Valley of the Caïcus.; CHAPTER II The Principate of Philetaerus and of Eumenes I.; CHAPTER III The Reign of Attalus I.; CHAPTER IV The Reign of Eumenes II.; CHAPTER V The Last Years of the Dynasty (pp. 130-165).; CHAPTER VI The Kingdom of the Attalids (pp. 166-233).; CHAPTER VII The Building Activity of the Attalids (pp. 234-298).;