AIGAI in AEOLIS 2-1CenBC Authentic Ancient Greek Coin ATHENA & NUDE ZEUS i66717
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AIGAI in AEOLIS 2-1CenBC Authentic Ancient Greek Coin ATHENA & NUDE ZEUS i66717:
$15.00
Item: i66717
Authentic Ancient Coin of:
Greek city of Aigai in Aeolis
Bronze 16mm (5.32 grams) Struck circa 2nd-1st Century B.C.
Reference: Sear 4167; B.M.C. 17.96,12-13
Helmeted head of Athena right.
Naked Zeus standing facing, holding eagle and scepter; ΑΙΓΑΕΩN to right; three monograms in field to left.Aigai was an inland town, one of the twelve cities of Aeolis in Asia Minor, north of Smyrna, and south-east of Myrina, on the river Hyllus or Pythikos. It suffered greatly from an earthquake in the time of Tiberius. You are offerding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity.
Athena or Athene (Latin: Minerva), also referred to as Pallas Athena, is the goddess of war, civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, crafts, justice and skill in Greek mythology. Minerva, Athena\'s Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is also a shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens. The Athenians built the Parthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens, in her honour (Athena Parthenos). Athena\'s cult as the patron of Athens seems to have existed from the earliest times and was so persistent that archaic myths about her were recast to adapt to cultural changes. In her role as a protector of the city (polis), many people throughout the Greek world worshiped Athena as Athena Polias (\"Athena of the city\"). Athens and Athena bear etymologically connected names.
In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus was the \"Father of Gods and men\" who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family. He was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. His Roman counterpart is Jupiter and Etruscan counterpart is Tinia.
Zeus was the child of Cronus and Rhea, and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he was married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort was Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.
As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, \"Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence.\" For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods, who oversaw the universe. As Pausanias observed, \"That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men\". In Hesiod\'s Theogony Zeus assigns the various gods their roles. In the Homeric Hymns he is referred to as the chieftain of the gods.
His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical \"cloud-gatherer\" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.
Aigai, also Aigaiai was an ancient Greek, later Roman (Ægæ, Aegae), city and bishopric in Aeolis. Aegae is mentioned by both Herodotus and Strabo as being a member of the Aeolian dodecapolis. It was also an important sanctuary of Apollo. Aigai had its brightest period under the Attalid dynasty, which ruled from nearby Pergamon in the 3rd and 2nd century BC. The remains of the city are located near the modern village of Yuntdağı Köseler in Manisa Province, Turkey. The archaeological site is situated at a rather high altitude almost on top of Mount Gün (Dağı), part of the mountain chain of Yunt (Dağları).
Initially the city was a possession of the Lydian Empire and later the Achaemenid Empire when it conquered the former. In the early third century BC it became part of the Kingdom of Pergamon. It changed hands from Pergamon to the Seleucid Empire, but was recaptured by Attalus I of Pergamon in 218BC.
In the war between Bithynia and Pergamon, it was destroyed by Prusias II of Bithynia in 156BC. After a peace was brokered by the Romans, the city was compensated with hundred talents. Under the rule of Pergamon a market building and a temple to Apollo were constructed.
In 129BC the Kingdom of Pergamon became part of the Roman Empire. The city was destroyed by an earthquake in 17AD and received aid for reconstruction from emperor Tiberius.
LayoutThe city is situated on a plateau at the summit of the steep Gün Dağı mountain, which can be climbed from the north. The plateau is surrounded by a wall with a length of 1.5kilometers. On the Eastern side are the remains of the three-story indoor market with a height of 11meters and a length of 82meters. The upper floor of the Hellenistic building was renovated in Roman times. The partially overgrown remains of many other buildings are scattered over the site. These include the acropolis which is laid out in terraces, a Macellum, a gymnasium, a bouleuterion and the foundations of three temples.
About five kilometers to the east the foundations of a sanctuary of Apollo are found on the banks of the river which flows around the ruins. It was an Ionic order peripteros temple from the first century BC. A cella which is six meters high and three monoliths still remain.
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AIGAI in AEOLIS 2-1CenBC Authentic Ancient Greek Coin ATHENA & NUDE ZEUS i66717:
$15.00