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unusual facts about Attalid dynasty


Attalid dynasty

On the interior of the Pergamon Altar is a frieze depicting the life of Telephus, son of Herakles, whom the ruling Attalid dynasty associated with its city and utilized to claim descent from the Olympians.


Musaeus of Ephesus

Musaeus of Ephesus was an Ephesian attached to the court of the kings of Pergamon, who wrote a Perseis, and poems on Eumenes and Attalus I.


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