The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia: Money, Culture, and State Power

Reveals how the iconoclastic Attalid dynasty of the ancient city of Pergamon ruled the Anatolian peninsula – and influenced our entire imagination of the Classical world – with only budgets, coins, and clever bureaucratic maneuvers, casting a single empire around Greek cities on the Aegean coast and indigenous villages on the steppe.

About the Author

Noah Kaye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. He is an ancient historian who has worked extensively throughout the eastern Mediterranean, in Greece, where he was the Heinrich Schliemann Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in Israel, where he was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa, and in Turkey, where he was a Senior Fellow at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations. He has conducted and published archaeological fieldwork in Greece (Molyvoti Thrace Archaeological Project) and Turkey (Boğsak Archaeological Survey, Cilicia). He is also an epigrapher and a numismatist, and has contributed to the multi-lingual corpus of inscriptions, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae.