Philetaerus

Philetaerus in Wikipedia

Philetaerus (Greek: Φιλέταιρος, Philétairos, ca. 343 BC–263 BC) was the founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon in Anatolia. He was born in Tieium (Greek: Tieion),[1] a small town on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia between Bithynia to the west and Paphlagonia to the east. His father was Attalus (Greek: Attalos) (perhaps from Macedon) and his mo...

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Philetaerus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Φιλέταιρος). The founder of the kingdom of Pergamum, a native of Paphlagonia (Strabo, pp. 543, 623). He had served in the army of Antigonus and later in that of Lysimachus, who put him in charge of the treasure stored at Pergamum. Philetaerus, shifting for himself, declared in favour of Seleucus (q.v.), but after the death of the latter (B.C. 280)...

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