That, of course, is the feature which most concerns us here.

It may not have looked so predominant to their builders and inhabitants.

The towns which the Macedonians founded were not seldom rich and large; several were the capitals of powerful and despotic rulers.

In such towns we expect great public buildings, temples, palaces.

It is not surprising if sometimes those who reared them cared solely for the spectacular grouping of magnificent structures and forgot the private houses and the general plan of the town.
_Pergamum_.
One such instance from the Macedonian age, perhaps the most instructive which we could ever hope to get,[38] is Pergamum, in the north-west of Asia Minor.