Editing Pergamon (section)

====Temple of Dionysus====
At Pergamon, Dionysus had the epithet ''Kathegemon'', 'the guide',<ref>On Dionysus Kathegemon, see Erwin Ohlemutz: ''Die Kulte und Heiligtümer der Götter in Pergamon''. Würzburg 1940, pp. 99–122.</ref> and was already worshiped in the last third of the 3rd century BC, when the Attalids made him the chief god of their dynasty.<ref>[[Helmut Müller]], "Ein neues hellenistisches Weihepigramm aus Pergamon," ''[[Chiron (journal)|Chiron]]'' 1989, pp. 539–553.</ref> In the 2nd century BC, Eumenes II (probably) built a temple for Dionysus at the northern end of the theatre terrace. The marble temple sits on a podium, 4.5 metres above the level of the theatre terrace and was an [[Ionic order|Ionic]] [[prostyle]] temple. The [[pronaos]] was four columns wide and two columns deep and was accessed by a staircase of twenty-five steps.<ref>Wolfgang Radt, ''Pergamon: Geschichte und Bauten einer antiken Metropole''. Darmstadt 1999, p. 189.</ref> Only a few traces of the Hellenistic structure survive. The majority of the surviving structure derives from a reconstruction of the temple which probably took place under [[Caracalla]], or perhaps under [[Hadrian]].<ref>Wolfgang Radt, ''Pergamon: Geschichte und Bauten einer antiken Metropole''. Darmstadt 2005, p. 190.</ref>