The Aftermath of the Apamean Settlement: Early Challenges to the new Order in Asia Minor

✍ Scribed by Petković, Žarko

• Book ID: 118042862
• Publisher: Akademie Verlag
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 109 KB
• Volume: 94
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0075-6334
• DOI: 10.1524/klio.2012.0018

✦ Synopsis

The Aftermath of the Apamean Settlement: Early Challenges to the new Order in Asia Minor As a result of the Apamean peace treaty (188 BC), a substantial part of western and northern Asia Minor became the domain of Eumenes II. 1 In his own words:

But, the new power of the Attalid king and his ambition for extended empire under Roman authority were quickly challenged by the Bithynian king, Prusias I.

The dispute over territories in northern Asia Minor was already a hot issue between Eumenes and Prusias. On the eve of the Roman war against Antiochos, Prusias concluded amicitia with the Romans. 3 It seems that Prusias thought that this new alignment with Rome would secure his possessions in northern Phrygia, which he had taken c. 196 from the Pergamene king. 4 But, after the defeat of Antiochos, the Senate was eager to protect the principal ally of Rome and decided that northern Phrygia belonged to Eumenes. 5 So, the war which followed was fought for the control of that territory.