Pergamum
Place
Civil War 3.31 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… And as the province had fallen into a state of great anxiety and fear about a Parthian war, and remarks were heard from the soldiers that if they were being led against an enemy they would go, but that against a citizen and a consul they would not bear arms, he conducted his legions to Pergamum and the richest cities for winter quarters and bestowed on them …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.31
Caesar
… And as the province had fallen into a state of great anxiety and fear about a Parthian war, and remarks were heard from the soldiers that if they were being led against an enemy they would go, but that against a citizen and a consul they would not bear arms, he conducted his legions to Pergamum and the richest cities for winter quarters and bestowed on them very large bounties, and with the object of encouraging the men allowed them to pi under the towns.
Alexandrian War 26
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
Round about the same time Mithridates of Pergamum approached Pelusium. …
Civil War 3.105
Caesar
… At Pergamum in the secret and concealed parts of the temple, whither no one but the priests is allowed to approach, which the Greeks call ἄδυτα, there was a sound of drums. …
Geographical record
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An important ancient settlement, located at modern Bergama in Turkey. It was first described in Xenophon's Anabasis and was later used as a treasury under Lysimachus. Pergamum became the administrative capital and principal city of the Attalid kingdom and dynasty (282-133 BCE) and was briefly the first capital of the Roman province of Asia. It later was a seat of a Christian bishopric and is listed in Revelation as one of the seven churches of Asia. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014 under "Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape".
Pleiades 550812 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 E3 Pergamum
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Civil War 3.31 · Civil War 3.105 · Alexandrian War 26 · Alexandrian War 78