Syracuse in Sicily 287BC HIKETAS Authentic Ancient Greek Coin ZEUS EAGLE i46596
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Syracuse in Sicily 287BC HIKETAS Authentic Ancient Greek Coin ZEUS EAGLE i46596:
$600.00
Item: i46596
Authentic Ancient Coin of:
Greek city ofSyracuse inSicily
Bronze 24mm (11.53 grams) Struck under Hiketas, circa 287-278 B.C.
Reference: HGC 2, 1448; CNS II, nos. 154-156
Laureate head of Zeus Hellanios left; trophy behind head.
ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, Eagle with spread wings standing left on thunderbolt.
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In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus was the \"Father of Gods and men\" (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε)who ruled the Olympians ofMount Olympus as a father ruled the family. He was thegod of sky andthunder inGreek mythology. HisRoman counterpart isJupiter andEtruscan counterpart is Tinia.
Zeus was the child ofCronus and Rhea, and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he was married toHera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort wasDione: according to the Iliad, he is the father ofAphrodite by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, includingAthena,Apollo and Artemis,Hermes,Persephone (by of Troy,Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera, he is usually said to have fatheredAres,Hebe and Hephaestus.
AsWalter 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 theKing of the Gods, who oversaw the universe. AsPausanias 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 thethunderbolt,eagle,bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical \"cloud-gatherer\" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of theAncient Near East, such as thescepter. 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.
Hicetas (Greek:Ἱκέτας or Ἱκέτης) was tyrant ofSyracuse, during the interval between the reign ofAgathocles and that ofPyrrhus. After the death of Agathocles (289 BCE), his supposed assassin,Maenon, put to deathArchagathus, the grandson of Agathocles; and assuming the command of the army with which the latter was besiegingAetna, directed his arms against Syracuse. Hereupon Hicetas was sent against him by the Syracusans, with a considerable army: but after the war had continued for some time, without any decisive result, Maenon, by calling in the aid of theCarthaginians, obtained the superiority, and the Syracusans were compelled to conclude an ignominious peace. Soon after ensued the revolution which led to the expulsion of the Campanian mercenaries, afterwards known as theMamertines: and it must have been shortly after this that Hicetas established himself in the supreme power, as we are told byDiodorus that he ruled nine years. The only events of his government that are recorded are a war withPhintias, tyrant of Agrigentum (modernAgrigento), in which he obtained a considerable victory, and one with the Carthaginians, by whom he was defeated at the riverTerias. He was at length expelled from Syracuse byThynion, an event which took place not long before the arrival of Pyrrhus inSicily, and must therefore be referred either to 279 BCE or 278 BCE, either of which dates is consistent enough with the period of nine years allotted to his reign by Diodorus. (Diod. Exc. Hoesch. xxi. 12, 13, xxii. 2, 6)
There are extant gold coins struck at Syracuse bearing the name of Hicetas: from the inscription on these ΕΠΙ ΙΚΕΤΑ, it is clear that he never assumed the title of \"king\", like his contemporary Phintias, at Agrigentum.
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Syracuse in Sicily 287BC HIKETAS Authentic Ancient Greek Coin ZEUS EAGLE i46596:
$600.00