Eumenes II, a brilliant statesman, has brought…

Eumenes II, a brilliant statesman, has brought his small kingdom to the peak of its power and done more than any other Attalid monarch to make Pergamon a great center of Greek culture in the East.

He is responsible for the construction of nearly all the main public buildings—together with their splendid sculptures—on the acropolis at Pergamon.

At his death in 160/159 BCE, his sixty-year-old brother succeeds him as Attalus II Philadelphus (“Brotherly”).