Pergamum

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1. Pergamum - Noun

2. Pergamum - Proper noun

Meaning

an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here

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At Pergamum there was discovered in 1903 a Hellenistic copy of the head of the Hermes "Propylaeus" of Alcamenes. Source: Internet

At the end of the Hellenistic period, in 197 BC, the city suddenly cut its ties with King Eumenes of Pergamum and instead appealed to Rome for help. Source: Internet

Although Rome with her empire takes the lion’s share of the attention, ancient Assyria and Egypt (and Alexandria), Athens and Pergamum and Herculaneum, are all represented too. Source: Internet

Some of what we know of them comes from Celsus and Galen of Pergamum. Source: Internet

Galen served as chief physician to the gladiators in Pergamum (AD 158). Source: Internet

I have also visited Epidaurus in Greece and Pergamum in Turkey, healing shrines of the pagan god Asklepios. Source: Internet

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