Attalus II Philadelphus was a King of Pergamon and the founder of modern-day Turkish city Antalya.
Background
He was the second son of Attalus I Soter and Queen Apollonis, and ascended the throne first as co-ruler alongside his ailing brother Eumenes II in 160 British Columbia, whose widow Stratonice of Pergamon he married in 158 British Columbia upon Eumenes" death.
Career
In 190 British Columbia, he resisted an invasion by the Seleucids and the following year (189 British Columbia) led his forces to fight alongside the Roman Army under Gnaeus Manlius Vulso in Galatia. In 182 British Columbia he again fought the Seleucids, successfully meeting the army of Pharnaces I of Pontus. Finally, he assisted the Romans again in 171 British Columbia, joining Publius Licinius Crassus in Greece for the Third Macedonian War.
Attalus II also made frequent diplomatic visits to Rome, and sent frequent envoys such as Andronicus of Pergamum, gaining the esteem of the Romans.
After he became King, they assisted him in his own battles against Prusias II in 156–154 British Columbia and sided with him in helping pretender Alexander Balas to seize the Seleucid throne from Demetrius I in 150 British Columbia and Nicomedes II Epiphanes seize the Bithynian throne from his father Prusias II the following year. He was well known as a patron of the arts and sciences, and was the inventor of a new kind of embroidery.
In his old age, he relied upon his chief minister, named Philopoemen (Φιλοποίμην), to help him govern.