Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Wenn Macht und Dichtung sich begegnen – Polykrates und Anakreon im Lichte der griechischen Literatur
- The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
- The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
- Sparta, Its Fleet, and the Aegean Islands in 387–375 BC
- The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
- Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos
- Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
- Wines from Cyprus and Cilicia in Antiquity: Taste and Trade
- From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD
- Aideen Carty, Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece, (Historia Einzelschriften 236), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 260 S., ISBN 978-3-515-10898-0 (Jakub Kuciak)
- Julien Monerie D'Alexandre à Zoilos. Dictionnaire prosopographique des porteurs de nom grec dans les sources cunéiformes (Oriens et Occidens 23), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, 225 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10956-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo, Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 374 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11061-7 (Maciej Piegdoń)
- Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez, Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11135-5 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Annika B. Kuhn, Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 342 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-11090-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Menahem Mor, The Second Jewish Revolt. The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism – vol. 50), Brill: Leiden–Boston 2016, 594 pp., ill., ISSN 1571-5000; ISBN 978-90-04-31462-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0
- J.G. Manning, Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia” (Oriens et Occidens 24), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 153 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10948-2; J. H. Richardson, F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (HABES 56), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 327 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10961-1 (Edward Dąbrowa)
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The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Wenn Macht und Dichtung sich begegnen – Polykrates und Anakreon im Lichte der griechischen Literatur
- The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
- The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
- Sparta, Its Fleet, and the Aegean Islands in 387–375 BC
- The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
- Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos
- Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
- Wines from Cyprus and Cilicia in Antiquity: Taste and Trade
- From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD
- Aideen Carty, Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece, (Historia Einzelschriften 236), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 260 S., ISBN 978-3-515-10898-0 (Jakub Kuciak)
- Julien Monerie D'Alexandre à Zoilos. Dictionnaire prosopographique des porteurs de nom grec dans les sources cunéiformes (Oriens et Occidens 23), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, 225 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10956-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo, Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 374 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11061-7 (Maciej Piegdoń)
- Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez, Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11135-5 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Annika B. Kuhn, Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 342 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-11090-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Menahem Mor, The Second Jewish Revolt. The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism – vol. 50), Brill: Leiden–Boston 2016, 594 pp., ill., ISSN 1571-5000; ISBN 978-90-04-31462-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0
- J.G. Manning, Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia” (Oriens et Occidens 24), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 153 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10948-2; J. H. Richardson, F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (HABES 56), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 327 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10961-1 (Edward Dąbrowa)
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Summary
Abstract: The article discusses the contacts between the kings of Pergamon and the Greek states of the Aegean Islands. The problem should be considered both in the context of the Attalids’ situation in Asia Minor and their policy in the Aegean as well as in the broader context of their policy concerning Greek poleis. Philhellenism, euergetism, and cultural patronage became an important part of the dynasty's propaganda, and in the case of the Aegean Islands Delos became the centre of such activities. An important aspect of the Attalids’ political activity was war, and their participation in confl icts in the Aegean world and continental Greece was very active. This activity had to awaken the Attalids’ interest in the Aegean Islands both for strategic reasons and as a place for recruiting mercenaries for their army and navy. Therefore, we cannot explain all the activities undertaken by the kings of Pergamon in the Aegean Sea only in terms of propaganda and building their image. Attalos I entered the stage of great politics, exceeding the local problems of Asia Minor. He managed to mark his presence in the Aegean and win bases on the islands which could work as footholds for further political activity in the Greek and Macedonian world.
Key words: Attalids, Aegean Sea, Aegean Islands.
The Aegean Sea region was the heart of the Hellenistic world. This was where the interests of powerful states focused; the Greek cities located there were a reservoir of personnel and a military supply base. As a result, the region became the object of rivalry among all the prominent states at the time, and Hellenistic kings attached so much importance to emphasising their presence in this area. The world of the island poleis played a substantial role in these political games. The Aegean Islands became the focus of interest of the most powerful states in the world at the time and an important arena where their interests clashed. Almost the entire third century was dominated by the rivalry between the Lagids and the Antigonids, but other states were also active in the area, including the Kingdom of Pergamon under Attalid rule.
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- Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity , pp. 77 - 100Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2017