In refusing to bow before the Galatian terror which had plagued your people for generations, you liberated the cities of Ionia from their plight and became known across the world as a saviour of all Greeks. Hail, Attalus Soter, first of the Attalid dynasty! You rule Pergamon, greatest of the Greek kingdoms of Ionia, and hegemon of Anatolia. During his reign, Attalus established Pergamon as a considerable power in the Greek East. He was the second cousin and the adoptive son of Eumenes I, his predecessor. The Kingdom lasted for hundreds of years, until faced with a succession crisis King Eumenes III bequeathed the kingdom to the Republic of Rome, incorporating it into Rome's quckly expanding empire.Īttalus I, surnamed Soter, ruled Pergamon, first as dynast, later as king, from 241 BC to 197 BC. Pergamon fought several wars against other Macedonian successor kingdoms, in all cases holding its own until it came to rule much of Western Anatolia. Under King Attalus, the kingdom defeated the Galatians, a Celtic tribe from Europe who had taken up residence in the Anatolian interior and were harrassing the Ionian states.
In the wake of earlier invasion by Persia and later by Alexander the Great, the city rose quickly in prominence to become a major regional power. The Kingdom of Pergamon started life as just one of many Greek city states dotted along the Aegean coast of Anatolia, in a region known as Ionia.
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