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Pergamum
Pergamum , ancient city of NW Asia Minor, in Mysia (modern Turkey), in the fertile valley of the Caicus. It became important c.300 BC, after the breakup of the Macedonian empire, when a Greek family (the Attalids) established a brilliant center of Hellenistic civilization. The kingdom achieved major... Read more
Mysia
Mysia , ancient region, NW Asia Minor. It was N of Lydia and its coast faced Lesbos. Mysia was not a political unit, and it passed successively to Lydia, Persia, Macedon, Syria, Pergamum, and Rome. ... Read more
Seven Churches in Asia
Seven Churches in Asia addressed in the preface of the Book of Revelation . They are the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia (Lydia), and Laodicea (Phrygia). They are in W Asia Minor. ... Read more
Apollodorus
Apollodorus , fl. 430-400 BC, Athenian painter, called the Shadower, said to have introduced the use of light and shade to model form. Among his few known works are Ajax Struck by Lightning and Priest in the Act of Devotion; both were at Pergamum in the time of Pliny the Elder; none has survived... Read more
Alcamenes
Alcamenes , fl. 5th cent. BC, Athenian sculptor, said to have been a pupil and rival of Phidias. He worked in gold, ivory, and bronze. His Aphrodite of the Gardens at Athens was one of the first sculptures to display the body in detail beneath drapery. Pausanias erroneously attributed to him the s... Read more
Philadelphia
Philadelphia name of several ancient cities. One was in Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). At the foot of Mt. Tmolus and near the location of modern Alaşehir , it was founded in the 2d cent. BC by Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamum. One of the Seven Churches in Asia was there (Rev. 3.7). Th... Read more
Galen
Galen , c.130-c.200, physician and writer, b. Pergamum, of Greek parents. After study in Greece and Asia Minor and at Alexandria, he returned to Pergamum, where he served as physician to the gladiatorial school. He resided chiefly in Rome from c.162. Noted for his lectures and writings, he establish... Read more
Demetrius I
Demetrius I (Demetrius Soter) , c.187-150 BC, king of ancient Syria (162-150 BC), son of Seleucus IV. He was sent as a hostage to Rome, where he remained during the reigns of his father and his uncle Antiochus IV. After Antiochus died, he was succeeded by his son Antiochus V, but Demetrius escaped... Read more
Ándros
Ándros , island (1991 pop. 8,781), 146 sq mi (378 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea, the northernmost and second largest of the Cyclades . Ándros (1991 pop. 1,370) is the capital and chief town. The island produces silk, wine, and fruit and has manganese deposits. Colonized by Athe... Read more
Antalya
Antalya , city (1990 pop. 378,726), capital of Antalya prov., SW Turkey, a port on the Mediterranean Sea. Its manufactures include textiles and ships. Nearby are deposits of chrome and manganese. Founded in the 2d cent. BC by Attalus II, king of Pergamum, the city was known as Attaleia or Attalia, l... Read more

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Pergamum
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Pergamum , ancient city of NW Asia Minor, in Mysia...Antiochus III of Syria. The independence of Pergamum ended dramatically when Attalus III...the Roman people. The chief glory of Pergamum was its sculpture, at two periods. The...
Galen
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...ancient medical practitioners, was born in Pergamum, Asia Minor. His father, the architect...age sixteen at the medical school of Pergamum attached to the local shrine of Asclepius...although not actual bodies). Returning to Pergamum at age twenty-eight, Galen became...
Eumenes II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...BC, son of Attalus I, king of Pergamum (197-159 BC). He managed to...his death prevented a war between Pergamum and Rome. A vigorous ruler and...politician, Eumenes II helped make Pergamum an important cultural center, which...
Perseus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...execution by Philip V. As king, his involvement in Greek politics excited the fears of Eumenes II of Pergamum , who, thinking that Pergamum's position was being endangered, went to Rome to provoke war against Perseus by pointing to alignments...
Hellenistic civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...final triumph of Roman power in Alexandria in the 1st cent. BC Pergamum was also prominent, and there were other cities of influence...highly intellectual circles. The libraries of Alexandria and Pergamum were centers of literary criticism and the compiling of anthologies...
dissection
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...neuroanatomy. Following the decline of Alexandrian science, the seat of serious anatomical study shifted to Rome. Here, Galen of Pergamum (129–216 ad) was the pre-eminent anatomist. Galen based his anatomical observations solely on animal dissections...
Herbalism, Western
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine ...included information on medicinal herbs and treatments that had been used for centuries in Indian Ayurvedic medicine . Galen of Pergamum, who also lived in the first century a.d., was a Roman physician and student of anatomy and physiology. He authored a...
İzmir
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...focus of a hinterland rich in classical and Turkish cultural heritage. Among the nearby sites of importance are Ephesus, Pergamum, and Sardis. see also aegean sea; anatolia; ottoman empire. Bibliography G ü ven ç , Bozkurt, ed. Social...
Mysia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Mysia , ancient region, NW Asia Minor. It was N of Lydia and its coast faced Lesbos. Mysia was not a political unit, and it passed successively to Lydia, Persia, Macedon, Syria, Pergamum, and Rome.
Gracchi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Tiberius, by immediately holding an unconstitutional referendum, deposed Octavius. Later in the year Attalus III, king of Pergamum, died and bequeathed his property to Rome; Tiberius proposed to use the bequest to provide capital for the paupers who were...

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Pergamum
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Pergamum An ancient city in what is now Turkey, some 20 km (12 miles) inland from...and was soon eclipsed by Ephesus as the chief city of the region. Attalid Pergamum was a brilliant centre of Hellenistic civilization: its chief glories were...
Galen
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Galen ( b . Pergamum, a.d. 129/130; d . 199/200...Nikon, was an architect and geometer in Pergamum. , Galen ’ s personal relationships...x2019; s first medical teacher in Pergamum was Satyrus. The latter, Galen reports...
Oribasius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ORIBASIUS ( fl . Pergamum, fourth century) medicine . The life...He came from a prominent family in Pergamum, where he was born at the beginning...concerned with rhetoric and philosophy. In Pergamum, Oribasius belonged to the circles...
Pergamene School
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...sculpture, associated with the city of Pergamum in Asia Minor, whose great period coincided...of Zeus ( c. 180–150 bc, Pergamum Museum, Berlin), which features relief...Hellenistic works from places other than Pergamum (above all the celebrated Laoco...
Apollonius of Perga
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...books are addressed to one Eudemus of Pergamum. Since the Preface to Book II states...commonly identified with King Attalus I of Pergamum (reigned 241 – 197 b.c...should happen to visit the neighborhood of Pergamum, give him a copy [of this book...
parchment
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...bookbinding. Pliny says that it was invented in the second century bc in Pergamum; hence the name ‘parchment’ from the Latin pergamena , ‘of Pergamum’. Skin had been used as a writing material before this...
Seven Churches
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Seven Churches. The Churches in Asia Minor to which the letter incorporated in Rev. (1–3) was addressed, namely Ephesus , Smyrna , Pergamum , Thyatira , Sardis , Philadelphia , and Laodicea .
Dionysodorus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Philonides, and another (no. 7) that Philonides published some lectures by Dionysodorus. Eudemus is obviously the Eudemus of Pergamum to whom Apollonius dedicated the first two books of his Conics , and Philonides is the mathematician to whom Apollonius asked...
Nicolaitans
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Nicolaitans A group with Gnostic tendencies living in Ephesus and Pergamum who are denounced in Rev. 2: 6 and 15.
Hellenistic
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian in 31 bc. During this period Greek culture flourished, spreading through the Mediterranean and into the Near East and Asia and centring on Alexandria in Egypt and Pergamum in Turkey.

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Pergamum to Provide Effective Development of Innovative Dermatology and Wound Healing Companies.
PR Newswire Europe; 9/10/2009; 700+ words ; ...STOCKHOLM, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Pergamum AB has announced its formation; Pergamum will commercialize the Karolinska Development...therapeutic company in its focus areas. The Pergamum product pipeline consists of five development...
The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World...correspondences between a Roman nobleman in Pergamum and Luke, the author of the canonical...a private home under excavation in Pergamum. This would be a rather miraculous...
The Paradox of Pergamum - Adhoc Theatre Workshop Theatre ** Ends today
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 8/21/1999; ; 331 words ; ...instruments and plastic body parts. And when they say The Paradox of Pergamum will investigate society's age-old need to keep probing...happen when science and entertainment meet, and The Paradox of Pergamum is no exception. Somehow, Van Den Berg and Stegman manage...
The lost letters of Pergamum: a story from the New Testament world.(Briefly Noted)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 2/1/2004; ; 496 words ; In The Lost Letters of Pergamum: a Story from the New Testament World (Baker Academic, $14...The correspondence is between Antipas, a non-Jewish native of Pergamum and Calpurnius of Ephesus and Luke, resident in Calpurnius' home...
Karolinska Development Introduces New Concept for Development of its Dermatology and Wound Healing Portfolio.
PR Newswire Europe; 9/9/2009; 700+ words ; ...publ) have announced the formation of Pergamum AB, a company that will commercialize...dermatology and wound healing companies to Pergamum AB, owning 64% of the new company...advantages when seeking exit opportunities. Pergamum will be able to represent several or...
New solution for long-term storage of digital data developed
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 4/22/2008; 700+ words ; ...introducing a new approach, called Pergamum, to store vast amounts of digital...recovery by future generations. Pergamum, a distributed network of intelligent...Mark Storer and Kevin Greenan, Pergamum will provide reliable, energy...
Digital data storage for the long run.(UP FRONT)
Magazine article from: Information Management Journal; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...scientists are working on a solution. Pergamum, named after an ancient Greek library...technologies change. According to Storer, Pergamum uses individual building blocks consisting...activating the hard drive. For reliability, Pergamum uses two levels of redundancy, within...
PAPER THAT LASTS CENTURIES.(parchment)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2000; 700+ words ; ...was invented some 2,200 years ago in Pergamum, a city in Asia Minor (present-day...cleaner and finer material. At the time, Pergamum was home to one of the finest libraries...Not everyone, however, considered Pergamum the intellectual center of the Mediterranean...
Libraries and people empowerment.(Opinion/Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 5/10/2001; 700+ words ; ...was jealous of the competing library in Pergamum. This proved to be a blessing in disguise. The ban forced the scribes at the Pergamum library to use an alternative writing...papyrus and vellum scrolls, its rival at Pergamum that included many works in parchment...
Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...remains such as the imperial temple at Pergamum-identified as the "throne of Satan...Ephesus; another to Rome and Augustus at Pergamum; to Tiberius, the senate, and Livia...him. Someone else, perhaps Antipas of Pergamum, might not be so fortunate. As a biblical...