CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Antigonid Dynasty, List Of Ancient Macedonians, Ptolemaic Kingdom

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS201
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

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After alexander died his generals split his empire amongst themselves. When the romans went into greece, the attalids (kings of. When rome started moving in, the attalids had a policy where they had an alliance. Attalids were named after attalus = macedonian noble family name. Romans got tired of the attalids and eventually the last king of pergamum did not have an heir. He said the romans would get his throne. The attalids were a hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of pergamon after the death of lysimachus. Poleis (city-states: democracy, city states were under kings, athens, dismantled in 322, now an oligarchy (smaller number of rulers in charge, athenians did not like philip the 2nd of macedon ruling so when. Alexander died they rebelled: they had a little war, lamian war 323, named by ___ got beseeched, showed that the greeks didn"t like being ruled by the, demetrius of phalerum (317-307)