Elaia in Asia Minor 4th-3rdCentBC Ancient Greek Coin Athena Corn-grain i49056
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Elaia in Asia Minor 4th-3rdCentBC Ancient Greek Coin Athena Corn-grain i49056:
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Item: i49056
Authentic Ancient Coin of:
Greek city of Elaia in Aiolis
Bronze 11mm (1.30 grams) Struck circa 340-300 B.C.
Reference: Sear 4204; B.M.C. 17.125,4; SNG München 386-8; SNG Copenhagen 169-70
Head of Athena left, wearing crested Athenian helmet.
Corn-grain between two olive-branches.
A coastal town situated south-west of Pergamon, Elaia servedas a port for its more important
neighbor during the time of the PergameneKingdom.
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Athenaor Athene (Latin:Minerva),also referred to as Pallas Athena, is the goddess of war, civilization,wisdom, strength, strategy, crafts, justice and skill inGreek mythology.Minerva,Athena\'s Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is also a shrewdcompanion of heroesand the goddessof heroicendeavour. She is thevirginpatron of Athens.The Athenians built theParthenonon 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 earliesttimes and was so persistent that archaic myths about her were recast to adapt tocultural 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\").Athensand Athena bear etymologically connected names.
Elaea or Elaia (Greek:Έλαία) was an ancient city ofAeolis,Asia, the port ofPergamum; the site is not precisely determined but is nearZeytindağ,İzmir Province, Turkey.
According to the present text ofStephanus of Byzantium, it was also called Cidaenis (Greek: Κιδαινίς),and was founded byMenestheus;but it seems likely that there is some error in the reading Cidaenis.Strabo placesElaea south of the riverCaicus, 12 stadia from the river, and 120 stadia from Pergamum. The Caicusenters a bay, which was calledElaiticus Sinus, or the bay of Elaea. Strabo calls the bay of Elaea part ofthe bay ofAdramyttium, but incorrectly. He has the story, which Stephanus has takenfrom him, that Elaea was a settlement made by Menestheus and theAthenians withhim, who joined the war against Troy; but Strabo does not explain how it couldbe an Aeoliancity, if this story was true. Elaea minted coins, which bear the head and nameof Menestheus. Some argue that these are some evidence of its Athenian origin;but others, includingWilliam Smith discount the connection.Herodotus(i. 149) does not name Elaea among the Aeolian cities. Strabo makes the bay ofElaea terminate on one side in a point called Hydra, and on the other in apromontory Harmatus; and he estimates the width between these points at 80stadia. Thucydides (viii. 101) places Harmatus opposite to Methymna, from which, andthe rest of the narrative, it is clear that he fixes Harmatus in a differentplace from Strabo. The exact site of Elaea seems to be uncertain.William Martin Leake, in his map, fixes it at a place marked Kliseli, on theroad from the south to Pergamum.Scylax (p. 35),Pomponius Mela (i. 18),Pliny (v. 32), andPtolemy (v.2), all of whom mention Elaea, do not help us to the precise place; all we learnfrom them is, that the Caicus flowed betweenPitane andElaea.
Elaea was located near the modern town of Zeytindağ, according to theBarrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.
The name of Elaea occurs in the history of the kings of Pergamum. Accordingto Strabo, from Livy(xxxv. 13), travellers who would reach Pergamum from the sea, would land atElaea.One of the passages of Livy shows that there was a small hill (tumulus) nearElaea, and that the town was in a plain and walled. Elaea was damaged by anearthquake in the reign ofTrajan, at thesame time that Pitane suffered.
Aeolis or Aeolia or Aiolis was an area that comprised the westand northwestern region ofAsia Minorr, mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islands(particularly Lesbos), where theAeolianGreek city-states were located. Aeolis incorporated the southern parts ofMysia whichbounded it to the north,Ionia to thesouth, and Lydiato the east.
GeographyAeolis was an ancient district on the western coast ofAsia Minor. It extended along theAegean Seafrom the entrance of theHellespont (now theDardanelles) south to theHermus River (now the Gediz River). It was named for the Aeolians, some ofwhom migrated there fromGreece before1000 BC. Aeolis was, however, an ethnological and linguistic enclave rather thana geographical unit. The district often was considered part of the largernorthwest region of Mysia.
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Elaia in Asia Minor 4th-3rdCentBC Ancient Greek Coin Athena Corn-grain i49056:
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