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	Pergamon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kingdom of Pergamon (colored olive) shown at its greatest extent in 188 BC.
		Pergamon had the second best library in the ancient world, after Alexandria.
		In the first century AD, the Christian Church at Pergamon was one of the Seven Churches to which the Book of Revelation was addressed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pergamon (440 words)

	Pergamon Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pergamon Museum (in German, Pergamonmuseum) is one of the museums on the Museum Island in Berlin.
		The main exhibits are the Pergamon Altar from the 2nd century BC, with a 113 meters (371 feet) long sculptural frieze depicting the struggle of the gods and the giants, and the Gate of Miletus from Roman antiquity.
		The Pergamon Museum was reopened in 1959 in East Berlin, while what remained in West Berlin is on display in the Castle of Charlottenburg since 1995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pergamon_Museum (879 words)

	Pergamum - All About Turkey
		The Theater of Pergamon, one of the steepest theaters in the world, has a capacity of 10,000 people and was constructed in the 3rd century B.C. The theater underwent changes during the Roman period under the reign of Caracalla.
		The famous Altar of Zeus in Pergamon is on the south of the theater.
		The Altar which was taken away from Pergamon in 1871 and carried to Germany by the German engineer Carl Humann, is exhibited at the Museum of Pergamum in Berlin, in a manner conforming to its original.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /pergamum.htm (773 words)

	Art produced in Pergamon (Pergamum)
		Pergamon was founded according to Mythology by Telephos a son of Herakles (Hercules) and Auge a priestess of Athena Alea at Tegea.
		Pergamon also is a name for Troy which is the home of Aeneas who escaping from Troy was a founder of the Roman state.
		The Altar was taken away from Pergamon in 1886 and carried to Germany in Berlin with the permission of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/Pergamon.htm (1390 words)

	Hotels in Turkey \| Hotels in Istanbul \| Blue Voyage Yachting and Cabin Charters \| Pergamon (Bergama)
		The Theater of Pergamon, one of the steepest theaters in the world, has the capacity to include 10.000 people and had been constructed in the 3rd century B.C. The theater underwent changes during the Roman period.
		The Altar which was taken away from Pergamon in the year 1871 and carried to Germany by the German engineer Carl Humann, is exhibited at the Museum of Berlin, in a manner conforming to its original.
		On the south of the Altar, the Agora belonging to the 2nd century B.C., is situated.
	www.exploreturkey.com /exptur.phtml?id=9 (707 words)

	Pergamon, Turkey
		From the fifth to the early third century B.C., Pergamon was a small fortified settlement on the summit of a hill, and may well have belonged in its early days to large Persian landowners.
		The Pergamon region was occupied by the Ottomans in the 14th century and thereafter the city on the hill was abandoned and fell into decay, while the new town of Bergama grew up on the south side of the hill.
		Temple of Trajan on the acropolis in Pergamon.
	www.planetware.com /turkey/pergamon-tr-iz-pe.htm (513 words)

	Pergamon in Mythology
		Pergamon is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, indicating that the god Zeus traveled from Mt. Olympus to Pergamon to watch the Trojan Wars.
		Encouraged by the kings of Pergamon, a high level of quality and interest was attained in the fine arts of Pergamon.
		The most significant misfortune faced by Pergamon under the Romans was the presentation by Anthony to Cleapatra the 200,000 volume library of the city.
	www.istanbulportal.com /Anatolia/Pergamon.aspx (1167 words)

	Dikili / Pergamon Middle East - Cruise Reivews.com
		Pergamon which was a castle city surrounded by city walls at the top before, was surrounded in Attalos period twice, it was in the condition of being a big and a safety city and in the Roman period a panaroma of expanding to plateau was seen.
		The ruins which belong to the Palaces of Pergamon Kings localized the southern side of the library and stoas that side of the library and stoas that surrounded Athena Temple.
		The Pergamon Theatre was built on a steep slope and is one of the most elegant architectural constructions of the Hellenistic era.
	www.cruise-reviews.com /port_info/port_detail.asp?fPortID=395 (3403 words)

	Acropolis in Pergamon
		The summit of the hill was carefully selected for the palaces of the kings of Pergamon.
		The greatest competitor of the Pergamon Library, developed by Eumenes II, and enlarged by his successors, was the Alexander Library in Egypt.
		Pergamon is located in the province of Izmir.
	www.istanbulportal.com /Anatolia/Pergamon2.aspx (784 words)

	rogueclassicism: Pergamon Coins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		One of two surviving golden coins stamped during the period of the foundation of the Kingdom of Pergamon is being exhibited at the Eregli Archaeology Museum in Konya.
		Pergamon was an ancient city founded on the Aegean coast of Anatolia at the site of the present-day city of Bergama.
		Noting that Pergamon was a city-state of the Roman Empire around 120 B.C., Bilici said that after establishing the realm the king stamped the coins as proof of the kingdom's independence from the Roman Empire.
	www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00002638.html (448 words)

	Pergamon Theatre History
		Consequently, the proskenion at Pergamon overlaps Vitruvius' basic circle of the orchestra by twenty-three and a half feet.
		Several reasons are suggested for the lack of a permanent stage and skene at Pergamon.
		Pergamon was first excavated in 1878 by Germans Carl Humann, Alexander Conze, and R. Bohn.
	www.whitman.edu /theatre/theatretour/pergamon/introduction/pergamon.intro2.htm (851 words)

	HOTEL PERGAMON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		But with a remarkable difference compared to others: the Pergamon s rooms are ruled by an absolutely perennial concept: the joining of comfort and coziness.
		Impressed with what they saw, they chose the Pergamon to be the first hotel of the chain in Brazil.
		It is another recognition of the quality that, since the beginning of the project, have made of the Pergamon something that completely sets it apart from others.
	www.pergamon.com.br /novo/info.asp?idioma=1 (910 words)

	No. 687: A Gift of Books
		Actually, Pergamon was once among the largest cities in the world.
		Pergamon became capital of the Attalid dynasty after 280 BC.
		To repay the loss, he gave the Pergamon Library to her.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi687.htm (415 words)

	Perseus Site: Pergamon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Pergamon was a haven for noted philosophers and artists and was the center of a major movement in Hellenistic sculpture.
		Pergamon, Trajaneum: Reconstruction detail of the N base of temple, original foundation and reconstructed flag stones of modern marble cement, original marble elements with ornaments and reconstructed continuation in modern marble cement, Sept. 1992.
		Pergamon, Precinct of Athena: Overall view of remains of the Temple of Athena, from NW Pergamon, Precinct of Athena: Overall view of temenos, from SW View from the NW corner of temenos toward SW and the Asklepieion
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/siteindex?lookup=Pergamon (3968 words)

	pergamon
		The city of ancient Pergamon (or Pergamum, today's Bergama) was created by the newly-founded royal dynasty in the mid-third century BCE.
		It became one of the classic late-Hellenistic cities, on a dramatically steep site, with imaginatiave solutions to the urban design problems created by the site, wonderfully embellished by the generous attention of its royal (and other) patrons.
		One of the most richly decorated structures of the Hellenistic period, the remains of the Altar of Zeus are now located in the Pergamum Museum in Berlin.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~prchrdsn/pergamon.htm (481 words)

	BerlinLIVE \| Pergamon Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Although this isolation may seem like a negative consequence of the grouping, it is extremely convenient for tourists, scholars, and anyone else who enjoys immersing himself in the fine arts.
		The Pergamon Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Bode Museum, and the Altes Museum stand on this piece of land between the Spree and Kupfergraben Rivers.
		The Pergamon Museum is named for (and its architecture inspired by) its main attraction, the second century BC Pergamon Altar, which draws over 850,000 visitors each year.
	www.mcah.columbia.edu /berlin/places/pergamon.html (314 words)

	Pergamon Altar Publication ASMOSIA VI
		The Great Altar of Pergamon and its Telephos Frieze, erected from around 180 to 160 BC by king Eumenes II in ancient Pergamon (located near the city of Bergama in Turkey), are amongst the most remarkable marble masterpieces from the ancient world.
		The Zeus altar of Pergamon - or simply the Pergamon altar - (Figure 1) is one of the marble masterpieces of antiquity whose building stones were of unknown origin until now.
		With Elaia, Pergamon had a harbour on the Aegean coast that was only 20 km away, and marble was accessible on many of the Aegean islands.
	www.lagerstaetten.tu-berlin.de /staff/cramer/antikmarmor/eigene_publikationen/asmosia_publication.html (3832 words)

	PERGAMON (PERGAMUM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It is in his letters to congregations at Pergamon and Thyatira specifically that John condemns the practice among some Christians (followers of “Balaam” or of “Jezebel”, or the “Nicolaitans”) who were eating food sacrificed to idols and, in the eyes of John, participating far too much in the practices of surrounding culture (“fornication”).
		John’s letter to Pergamon also makes reference to “Satan’s throne”, which may be an allusion to the small, yet prominent, temple of Zeus on the acropolis (the upper-city), or to the fact that the Roman governor also had his seat in the city at the time.
		There was a temple at Pergamon for the goddess Roma and for Augustus in the first century, and another imperial temple was built in the second century for emperor Trajan, which was located on the acropolis.
	www.philipharland.com /pergamon.html (485 words)

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		Pergamon PLUS will enable authors of articles published in Pergamon journals to award credits to the library of their choice for the purchase of any Pergamon journal.
		Each time a paper is accepted for publication in a Pergamon journal, the corresponding (senior) author will receive a credit for 25 pounds to be awarded to any library of his or her choosing.
		Pergamon will maintain a list of libraries and institutes in these countries to which authors will be encouraged to award credits.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/nspi/nspi-ns059.txt (2202 words)

	Perseus Site: Asklepieion, Pergamon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		When the Asklepieion was first established at the beginning of the 4th century B.C. the city of Pergamon was located ca.
		By the time the sanctuary had reached its peak in fame and monumental appearance in the 2nd century A.D. the city of Pergamon had expanded until its SW edge was ca.
		In addition to the monumental building program of the 2nd century A.D. and the fame of the sanctuary as a spa and healing center, which was second only to the original Asklepieion at Epidauros, the Pergamene Asklepieion was also renouned as the school of Galen, the most famous physician of the Roman period.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/siteindex?entry=Asklepieion,+Pergamon (495 words)

	Greek Travelogue - Pergamon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		But the library here in Pergamon came to rival that in Alexandria, so Egypt placed an embargo on papyrus about 190 BC, thus forcing Pergamon to switch to parchment which was made form animal skins.
		Thus the tradition that began with the centaur Cheiron was passed on to Galen and disseminated to the Romans.
		Pergamon and Ephesus were but two of many new Greek colonies.
	greek-myth.com /Pale_Horse/pergamon.htm (6485 words)

	Pergamon: The Theatre Site
		The Pergamon Project, which moved to its new web site from the University of Washington web server in March 2004, has been left in the same format in which it was developed more than a decade ago.
		Pergamon, maintained by Peter Richardson, University of Toronto.
		Pergamon In Mythology, Acropolis of Pergamon 1, and the Acropolis of Pergamon 2, three excellent pages on the Istanbul Portal, a site rich in historical as well as contemporary information about this ancient country.
	www.videoccasions-nw.com /history/pergamon/pergamon_intro.html (584 words)

	Pergamon Museum
		A few loose bricks from the Altar of Zeus foundation are all that remain in Pergamon.
		This may be the largest single structure Europeans removed from the ancient world and placed in a public museum.
		The Pergamon Museum's Babylon display is estimated to be 2,500 years old, from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II.
	www.geocities.com /intrepidberkeleyexplorer/Page23B.html (199 words)

	Hellenistic Art: The Pergamum Zeus Altar and the Gigantomachy
		The Pergamon Altar is one of the most impressive pieces of Art from Europe.
		Probably the Hercules of the Telephos Frieze, from the Pergamon Zeus temple, is a work that is based on the resting Hercules of Lysippos.
		This smaller frieze tells the story of the virgin priestess Auge, raped by Heracles and condemned by her father, manages to give birth to Telephos and hide him in a thicket before she is put out to sea in a boat.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/ZeusAltar.htm (1283 words)

	Pergamon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 133 BC, Attilid III bequeathed the citry to Rome, and it became part of the Roman Empire.
		Pergamon has had many landlords, including the Ottoman empire and today's modern Turkish Republic.
		The sanatorium at Pergamon was founded by the Asclepsians.
	www.joeberkphotography.com /pergamon.htm (211 words)

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		The altar at Pergamon was constructed during the reign of Eumenes II, around 197-159 BC (Stokstad, 212).
		It was erected in celebration of Pergamon's defeat of the Gauls.
		The altar of Pergamon, however, depicts a battle between the Gods and the Giants.
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /va11/amy/amy~1.html (828 words)

	Pergamon acropolis ( Pergamum photos ) Photo Gallery by Andrys Basten at pbase.com
		Pergamon is also known as Bergama (road signs) and old Pergamum.
		Roman marble stones wound up in lime kilns or were moved to museums, so what remains is a genuine Hellenistic acropolis of buildings before the Romans came, with one major exception.
		The library at Pergamon is now just a small pile of stones.
	www.pbase.com /andrys/pergamon (396 words)

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