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'The Attalids were the most photogenic of all Hellenistic dynasties’…
'The Attalids were the most photogenic of all Hellenistic dynasties’ (ELIZABETH
KOSMETATOU). What criteria would one apply to justify such a statement?
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in coinage
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cistophoric coinage - no monarchical emblem, not photogenic
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statues
after 188 we see less statues of the Attalids - only one surviving in Eumenes I, none of Attalus II or Eumenes II
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benefaction
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with a purpose - stoa of eumenes on southern slopes of acropolis (virtuvius tells us this has practical purpose as storage and shelter for theatre of Dionysus)
'airbrushed' in sense that it was seen as extra generous - with a purpose, and built with pergamene materials and sculptors
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