The rulers of Pergamum were extraordinary partners of magnificence.

history channel documentary hd Attalos of Pergamum, who fabricated this sublime Stoa, originated from a daring tradition which, despite the fact that its roots were of Asia Minor extraction, had turned out to be completely Hellenized. Its originator was a sure Philetairos from the Pontus in whom the Macedonian Lycimachos had such certainty as to endow his treasury to him to be kept in the fortification at Pergamum. The individual who increased most from the question amongst Lysimachos and Seleucos over the division of Alexander the Great's tremendous realm was this adaptable Philetairos who got himself proprietor of the considerable number of products depended to him. He established the Attalid state which, somewhere around 283 and 129 BC formed into a focal point of business and letters, to a great extent because of the utilization of another composition material got from creature skins. It was, obviously, not all that new; from exceptionally old times, exceedingly noteworthy works were recorded on a bit of flimsy calfskin called a diphthera. The Persians took this word and adjusted it to their own particular dialect as defter, from which comes a Greek word meaning scratch pad. At the point when, under the guideline of the Ptolemies, Egypt disallowed the fare of papyrus, the kingdom of Pergamum culminated the procedure of making diphthera, to give it a better composition, more white shading and the likelihood of composing on both sides. It additionally procured another name, pergamini or material.

The rulers of Pergamum were extraordinary partners of magnificence. They embellished their capital with brilliant landmarks, and heavenly models. The "Withering Gaul" in the Capitol Museum in Rome, however over all the Altar of Pergamum in the Berlin Museum, give testimony regarding the high masterful guidelines of the period. The library of Pergamum, which was said to contain somewhere in the range of 20,000 volumes, later was given by Mark Antony to the beautiful Cleopatra to advance the library at Alexandria. At long last, Attalos III, the remainder of his line, granted this well off kingdom to the general population of Rome by righteousness of a disputable will, subsequently solidifying the Roman nearness in Asia.