Philetaerus
Sign in to savethumb|200px|right|Coin, depicting the head of Philetaerus on the obverse and seated Athena, Greek goddess of war and wisdom, on the reverse, struck during the reign of [[Eumenes I (263 BC–241 BC)]]
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Philetaerus
- Royalty.image
- Filetero di pergamo, da villa dei papiri, peristilio rettangolare.JPG
- Royalty.caption
- Marble bust of Philetaerus. Roman copy from 1st century AD of the Greek original. Naples National Archaeological Museum.
- Royalty.succession
- King of Pergamon
- Royalty.reign
- 282–263 BC
- Royalty.predecessor
- part of Lysimachus kingdom
- Royalty.successor
- Eumenes I
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Greek
- Royalty.dynasty
- Attalid dynasty
- Royalty.father
- Attalus
- Royalty.mother
- Boa
- Royalty.birth_date
- c. 343 BC
- Royalty.birth_place
- Tieium(modern-day Filyos, Zonguldak, Turkey)
- Royalty.death_date
- 263 BC
- Royalty.religion
- Greek polytheism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Pergamon
- Place of birth
- Tium
- Place of death
- Pergamon
- Child
- Eumenes I
- Occupation
- ruler
- Position held
- ruler
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Family
- Attalid dynasty
- Image
- Filetairo.JPG
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- Commons category
- Philetaerus
- date of death
- 0263-00-00
- time period
- classical antiquity
- culture
- Hellenistic period
- date of birth
- 0340-01-01
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- significant place
- Tium
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Early life and career under Lysimachus
- Ruler of Pergamon
- Notes
- References
thumb|200px|right|Coin, depicting the head of Philetaerus on the obverse and seated Athena, Greek goddess of war and wisdom, on the reverse, struck during the reign of [[Eumenes I (263 BC–241 BC)]]
Philetaerus (; , Philétairos, c. 343–263 BC) was the founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon in Anatolia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philetaerus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.