The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia

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.

• Introduction; 1. Eating with the tax-collectors; 2. The skeleton of the state; 3. The king's money; 4. Cities and other civic organisms; 5. Hastening to the gymnasium; 6. Pergamene panhellenism; Conclusion; Appendix of Epigraphical Documents.

'… essential reading for those interested in not only the history of the Attalids, but also the history of western Asia Minor and ancient fiscal regimes.' Bradley Jordan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review