Peter Thonemann teaches Greek and Roman history at Wadham College, Oxford. He is the author of The Birth of Classical Europe (with Simon Price, 2010) and The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (2011).

A new book on the Attalids was much needed, and the authors have done much to show why ancient historians of all stripes will want to understand how Hellenistic monarchy developed in this period.

• PREFACE ; TABLE OF CONTENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; 1. The Attalid State, 188-133 BC ; 2. The Attalids: A Military History ; 3. The Attalids and the Seleukid Kings, 281-175 BC ; 4. What did the Attalids ever do for us? A View from the Aerarium ; 5. The Closed Currency System of the Attalid Kingdom ; 6. The Coinages of the Attalids and their Neighbours: A Panoramic View ; 7. The Use of the Cistophoric Weight Standard outside the Pergamene Kingdom ; 8. War or Tradea Attic-Weight Tetradrachms from Second-Century BC Attalid Asia Minor in Seleukid Syria after the Peace of Apameia and Their Historical Context ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Peter Thonemann teaches Greek and Roman history at Wadham College, Oxford. He is the author of The Birth of Classical Europe (with Simon Price, 2010) and The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (2011).

A new book on the Attalids was much needed, and the authors have done much to show why ancient historians of all stripes will want to understand how Hellenistic monarchy developed in this period.

• PREFACE ; TABLE OF CONTENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; 1. The Attalid State, 188-133 BC ; 2. The Attalids: A Military History ; 3. The Attalids and the Seleukid Kings, 281-175 BC ; 4. What did the Attalids ever do for us? A View from the Aerarium ; 5. The Closed Currency System of the Attalid Kingdom ; 6. The Coinages of the Attalids and their Neighbours: A Panoramic View ; 7. The Use of the Cistophoric Weight Standard outside the Pergamene Kingdom ; 8. War or Tradea Attic-Weight Tetradrachms from Second-Century BC Attalid Asia Minor in Seleukid Syria after the Peace of Apameia and Their Historical Context ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Peter Thonemann teaches Greek and Roman history at Wadham College, Oxford. He is the author of The Birth of Classical Europe (with Simon Price, 2010) and The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (2011).

A new book on the Attalids was much needed, and the authors have done much to show why ancient historians of all stripes will want to understand how Hellenistic monarchy developed in this period.

• PREFACE ; TABLE OF CONTENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; 1. The Attalid State, 188-133 BC ; 2. The Attalids: A Military History ; 3. The Attalids and the Seleukid Kings, 281-175 BC ; 4. What did the Attalids ever do for us? A View from the Aerarium ; 5. The Closed Currency System of the Attalid Kingdom ; 6. The Coinages of the Attalids and their Neighbours: A Panoramic View ; 7. The Use of the Cistophoric Weight Standard outside the Pergamene Kingdom ; 8. War or Tradea Attic-Weight Tetradrachms from Second-Century BC Attalid Asia Minor in Seleukid Syria after the Peace of Apameia and Their Historical Context ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX