SOLOI Cilicia ATHENA & GRAPES 390BC Very Rare Ancient Silver Greek Coin i16282
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SOLOI Cilicia ATHENA & GRAPES 390BC Very Rare Ancient Silver Greek Coin i16282:
$175.00
Item: i16282
Authentic Ancient Coin of:
Greek city of Soloi in Cilicia (Asia Minor)
Silver Stater 19mm (9.25 grams) Struck 390-375 B.C.
Reference: Sear 5606; B.M.C. 21. 146, 15
Head of Athena right, in crested Athenian helmet ornamented with griffin.
Bunch of grapes on stalk with tendrils; ΣOΛIO beneath; the type laced diagonally within incuse square.
An important coastal town south-west of Zephyrion and Tarsos, Soloi seems to have been a Rhodian foundation, though its coin types suggest some connection with Athens also. Early in the 1st century B.C. it was destroyed by Tigranes of Armenia, but in 66 B.C. Pompey the Great re-founded it under the name Pompeiopolis.
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Soli (AncientGreek:Σόλοι, Soloi) was an ancient city and port in Cilicia, in present dayTurkey, a part ofMezitli municipality which in turn is a part of Greater Mersin. It was a colony ofRhodes, founded c.700 BC. Soli was destroyed in the 1st century BC, and rebuilt byPompey the Great. Thereafter, it was called Pompeiopolis (not to be confused with thePompeiopolis inPaphlagonia). The wordsolecism is derived from Soli, since the dialect of Greek spoken there was considered by Athenians to be a corrupted form of Attic Greek.
Aratus of Soli was a famousHellenistic poet.
The geographical location of the ancient city Soli of Cilicia in a modern map of Turkey. The red dot shows the position of Mersin. At the present scale, it coincides with the position of Soli which is slightly on the west.
Helmeted Athena with the cista and Erichthonius in his serpent form. Roman, first century (Louvre Museum)InGreek religion andmythology, Athena or Athene, also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.Minerva is theRoman goddessidentified with Athena.
Athena is also a shrewd companion ofheroes and is thegoddess of heroic endeavour. She is thevirgin patroness ofAthens. The Athenians founded theParthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens (Athena Parthenos), in her honour.
Athena\'s veneration 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 (Ἀθηνᾶ Πολιάς \"Athena of the city\"). The city ofAthens and the goddess Athena essentially bear the same name, \"Athenai\" meaning \"[many] Athenas\".
Patroness Athenian tetradrachm representing the goddess AthenaAthena as the goddess of philosophy became an aspect of the cult in Classical Greece during the late 5th century B.C. She is the patroness of various crafts, especially ofweaving, as Athena Ergane, and was honored as such at festivals such asChalceia. The metalwork of weapons also fell under her patronage. She led battles (Athena Promachos or the warrior maiden Athena Parthenos) as the disciplined, strategic side of war, in contrast to her brotherAres, the patron of violence, bloodlust and slaughter—\"the raw force of war\". Athena\'s wisdom includes the cunning intelligence (metis) of such figures as Odysseus. Not only was this version of Athena the opposite of Ares in combat, it was also the polar opposite of the serene earth goddess version of the deity, Athena Polias.
Athena appears in Greek mythology as the patron and helper of many heroes, including Odysseus,Jason, andHeracles. InClassical Greek myths, she never consorts with a lover, nor does she ever marry,earning the title Athena Parthenos. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother ofErechtheus/Erichthonius through the foiled rape byHephaestus. Other variants relate that Erichthonius, the serpent that accompanied Athena, was born toGaia: when the rape failed, the semen landed on Gaia and impregnated her. After Erechthonius was born, Gaia gave him to Athena.
Though Athena is a goddess of war strategy, she disliked fighting without purpose and preferred to use wisdom to settle predicaments.The goddess only encouraged fighting for a reasonable cause or to resolve conflict. As patron of Athens she fought in the Trojan war on the side of the Achaeans.
Mythology Lady of AthensAthena competed withPoseidon to be the patron deity of Athens, which was yet unnamed, in a version of onefounding myth. They agreed that each would give the Athenians one gift and that the Athenians would choose the gift they preferred. Poseidon struck the ground with histrident and a salt water spring sprang up; this gave them a means of trade and water—Athens at its height was a significant sea power, defeating thePersian fleet at theBattle of Salamis—but the water was salty and not very good for drinking.
Athena, however, offered them the first domesticatedolive tree. The Athenians (or their king,Cecrops) accepted the olive tree and with it the patronage of Athena, for the olive tree brought wood, oil, and food.Robert Graves was of the opinion that \"Poseidon\'s attempts to take possession of certain cities are political myths\" which reflect the conflict between matriarchal and patriarchal religions.
Other sites of cult
Athena also was the patron goddess of several other Greek cities, notably Sparta, where the archaic cult ofAthena Alea had its sanctuaries in the surrounding villages ofMantineia and, notably,Tegea. In Sparta itself, the temple of AthenaKhalkíoikos (Athena \"of the Brazen House\", oftenlatinized as Chalcioecus) was the grandest and located on the Spartan acropolis; presumably it had a roof of bronze. The forecourt of the Brazen House was the place where the most solemn religious functions in Sparta took place.
Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece, containing the Temple ofAthena Alea. The temenos was founded byAleus,Pausanias was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric and Archaic periods take the forms of horses and deer; there aresealstone andfibulae. In the Archaic period the nine villages that underlie Tegea banded together in asynoecism to form one city. Tegea was listed in Homer\'sCatalogue of Ships as one of the cities that contributed ships and men for theAchaean assault on Troy.
Judgment of Paris Aphrodite is being surveyed by Paris, while Athena (the leftmost figure) and Hera stand nearby. El Juicio de Paris by Enrique Simonet, ca. 1904All the gods and goddesses as well as various mortals were invited to the marriage of Peleus andThetis (the eventual parents ofAchilles). OnlyEris, goddess of discord, was not invited. She was annoyed at this, so she arrived with a golden apple inscribed with the word καλλίστῃ (kallistēi, \"for the fairest\"), which she threw among the goddesses. Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena all claimed to be the fairest, and thus the rightful owner of the apple.
The goddesses chose to place the matter before Zeus, who, not wanting to favor one of the goddesses, put the choice into the hands of Paris, aTrojan prince. After bathing in the spring ofMount Ida (where Troy was situated), the goddesses appeared before Paris. The goddesses undressed and presented themselves to Paris naked, either at his request or for the sake of winning.
Paris is awarding the apple to Aphrodite, while Athena makes a face. Urteil des Paris by Anton Raphael Mengs, ca. 1757Still, Paris could not decide, as all three were ideally beautiful, so they resorted to bribes. Hera tried to bribe Paris with control over allAsia and Europe, while Athena offered wisdom, fame and glory in battle, but Aphrodite came forth and whispered to Paris that if he were to choose her as the fairest he would have the most beautiful mortal woman in the world as a wife, and he accordingly chose her. This woman wasHelen, who was, unfortunately for Paris, already married to KingMenelaus ofSparta. The other two goddesses were enraged by this and through Helen\'s abduction by Paris they brought about theTrojan War.
The Parthenon, Temple of Athena Parthenos Masculinity and feminismAthena had an \"androgynous compromise\" that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history (such as Marie de\' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great)
J.J. Bachofen advocated that Athena was originally a maternal figure stable in her security and poise but was caught up and perverted by a patriarchal society; this was especially the case in Athens. The goddess adapted but could very easily be seen as a god. He viewed it as \"motherless paternity in the place of fatherless maternity\" where once altered, Athena\'s character was to be crystallized as that of a patriarch.
Whereas Bachofen saw the switch to paternity on Athena\'s behalf as an increase of power, Freud on the contrary perceived Athena as an \"original mother goddess divested of her power\". In this interpretation, Athena was demoted to be only Zeus\'s daughter, never allowed the expression of motherhood. Still more different from Bachofen\'s perspective is the lack of role permanency in Freud\'s view: Freud held that time and differing cultures would mold Athena to stand for what was necessary to them.
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SOLOI Cilicia ATHENA & GRAPES 390BC Very Rare Ancient Silver Greek Coin i16282:
$175.00