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The Origin of Tyranny

Note 1437 — Chapter X · (a) Capitalist Despots of the Age of Aristotle, (b) the Money Power of the Rulers of Pergamum, (c) Protogenes of Olbia

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An inscription published J.H.S. XXII. p. 195 gives his father the Greek name of Attalus, but he is described by Athenaeus, XIII. 577b, quoting Carystius, as the son of a courtesan flute girl from Paphlagonia, and by Pausanias, I. 8. 1, as a Paphlagonian eunuch.

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