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Attalus I - Defeat of the Galatians | | Attalus I - Defeat of the Galatians: Encyclopedia II - Attalus I - Defeat of the Galatians | | According to Pausanias "the greatest of his achievements" was the defeat of the "Gauls"(Γαλάται)5. Pausanias was referring to the Galatians, immigrant Celts from Thrace, who had recently settled in Galatia in central Asia Minor, and whom the Romans and Greeks called Gauls, associating them with the Celts of what is now France, Switzerland, and northern Italy. Since the time of Philetaerus, the uncle of Eumenes I and the first Attalid ruler, the Galatian ...
See also:Attalus I, Attalus I - Early life, Attalus I - Defeat of the Galatians, Attalus I - Conquests in Seleucid Asia Minor, Attalus I - First Macedonian War, Attalus I - Macedonian hostilities of 201 BCE, Attalus I - Second Macedonian War, Attalus I - Wife and sons, Attalus I - The introduction of the cult of the Magna Mater to Rome, Attalus I - Notes | | | Attalus I, Attalus I - Conquests in Seleucid Asia Minor, Attalus I - Defeat of the Galatians, Attalus I - Early life, Attalus I - First Macedonian War, Attalus I - Macedonian hostilities of 201 BCE, Attalus I - Notes, Attalus I - Second Macedonian War, Attalus I - The introduction of the cult of the Magna Mater to Rome, Attalus I - Wife and sons | | |
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Attalus I - Defeat of the Galatians
According to Pausanias "the greatest of his achievements" was the defeat of the "Gauls"(Γαλάται)5. Pausanias was referring to the Galatians, immigrant Celts from Thrace, who had recently settled in Galatia in central Asia Minor, and whom the Romans and Greeks called Gauls, associating them with the Celts of what is now France, Switzerland, and northern Italy. Since the time of Philetaerus, the uncle of Eumenes I and the first Attalid ruler, the Galatians had posed a problem for Pergamon, indeed for all of Asia Minor by exacting tributes to avoid war or other repercussions. Eumenes I had (probably), along with other rulers, dealt with the Galatians by paying these tributes. Attalus however refused to pay them, being the first such ruler to do so.6 As a consequence, the Galatians set out to attack Pergamon. Attalus met them near the sources of the river Caïcus7 and won a decisive victory, after which, following the example of Antiochus I, Attalus took the name of Soter which means "savior" and claimed the title of king. The victory brought Attalus legendary fame. A story arose, related by Pausanias, of an oracle who had foretold these events a generation earlier:
Then verily, having crossed the narrow strait of the Hellespont,
The devastating host of the Gauls shall pipe; and lawlessly
They shall ravage Asia; and much worse shall God do
To those who dwell by the shores of the sea
For a short while. For right soon the son of Cronos
Shall raise a helper, the dear son of a bull reared by Zeus
Who on all the Gauls shall bring a day of destruction.
Pausanius adds that by the "son of a bull" the oracle "meant Attalus, king of Pergamon, who was styled bull-horned".8 On the acropolis of Pergamon, was erected a triumphal monument, which included the famous sculpture The Dying Gaul, commemorating this battle.
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