ARPI in APULIA 300BC Zeus Calydonian Boar Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i51600

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Item: i51600 Authentic Ancient Coin of: Greek city of Arpi in Apulia Bronze 21mm (7.90 grams) Struck circa 300-200 B.C. Reference: Sear 569; B.M.C. 1.4; SNG ANS 636; SNG Cop. 603 ΔAIOY, Laureate head of Zeus left, thunderbolt behind. Kalydonian (Calydonian) boar running right, spear-head above, APΠANOY in exergue. You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity. In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus was the ”Father of Gods and men” (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε) 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. The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful woman, Atalanta , who won its hide by first wounding it with an arrow. This outraged some of the men, with tragic results. Strabo was under the impression that the Calydonian Boar was an offspring of the Crommyonian Sow vanquished by Theseus . The Calydonian Hunt shown on a Roman frieze (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford ) Importance in Greek mythology and art The Calydonian Boar is one of the chthonic monsters in Greek mythology, each set in a specific locale. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia , it met its end in the Calydonian Hunt, in which all the heroes of the new age pressed to take part, with the exception of Heracles , who vanquished his own Goddess-sent Erymanthian Boar separately. Since the mythic event drew together numerous heroes—among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times—the Calydonian Boar hunt offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around its protagonists on other occasions, around their half-divine descent and their offspring. Like the quest for the Golden Fleece (Argonautica) or the Trojan War that took place the following generation, the Calydonian Hunt is one of the nodes in which much Greek myth comes together. Tondo of a Laconian black-figure cup by the Naucratis Painter , ca. 555 BCE (Louvre) Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ’ telling; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (”The Library”) contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses . Hunt Oeneus (”wine man”) of Calydon , an ancient city of west-central Greece north of the Gulf of Patras , held annual harvest sacrifices to the gods on the sacred hill. One year the king forgot to include Great ”Artemis of the Golden Throne” in his offerings Insulted, Artemis, the ”Lady of the Bow”, loosed the biggest, most ferocious boar imaginable on the countryside of Calydon. It rampaged throughout the countryside, destroying vineyards and crops, forcing people to take refuge inside the city walls (Ovid), where they began to starve. Oeneus sent messengers out to look for the best hunters in Greece, offering them the boar’s pelt and tusks as a prize. Roman marble sarcophagus from Vicovaro , carved with the Calydonian Hunt (Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome) Meleager et Atalanta, after Giulio Romano . Among those who responded were some of the Argonauts , Oeneus’ own son Meleager , and, remarkably for the Hunt’s eventual success, one woman— the huntress Atalanta , the ”indomitable”, who had been suckled by Artemis as a she-bear and raised as a huntress, a proxy for Artemis herself (Kerenyi; Ruck and Staples). Artemis appears to have been divided in her motives, for it was also said that she had sent the young huntress because she knew her presence would be a source of division, and so it was: many of the men, led by Kepheus and Ankaios, refused to hunt alongside a woman. It was the smitten Meleager who convinced them. Nonetheless it was Atalanta who first succeeded in wounding the boar with an arrow, although Meleager finished it off, and offered the prize to Atalanta, who had drawn first blood. But the sons of Thestios, who considered it disgraceful that a woman should get the trophy where men were involved, took the skin from her, saying that it was properly theirs by right of birth, if Meleagros chose not to accept it. Outraged by this, Meleagros slew the sons of Thestios and again gave the skin to Atalanta (Bibliotheke). Meleager’s mother, sister of Meleager’s slain uncles, took the fatal brand from the chest where she had kept it (see Meleager ) and threw it once more on the fire; as it was consumed, Meleager died on the spot, as the Fates had foretold. Thus Artemis achieved her revenge against King Oeneus. Woodcut illustration for Raphael Regius ’s edition of Metamorphoses , Venice , ca. 1518 During the hunt, Peleus accidentally killed his host Eurytion. In the course of the hunt and its aftermath, many of the hunters turned upon one another, contesting the spoils, and so the Goddess continued to be revenged (Kerenyi, 114): ”But the goddess again made a great stir of anger and crying battle, over the head of the boar and the bristling boar’s hide, between Kouretes and the high-hearted Aitolians ” (Homer, Iliad , ix.543). The boar’s hide that was preserved in the Temple of Athena Alae at Tegea in Laconia was reputedly that of the Calydonian Boar, ”rotted by age and by now altogether without bristles” by the time Pausanias saw it in the second century CE. He noted that the tusks had been taken to Rome as booty from the defeated allies of Mark Anthony by Augustus ; ”one of the tusks of the Calydonian boar has been broken”, Pausanias reports, ”but the remaining one, having a circumference of about half a fathom, was dedicated in the Emperor’s gardens, in a shrine of Dionysos”. The Calydonian Hunt was the theme of the temple’s main pediment. Arpi (Argyrippa or Argos Hippium) was an ancient city of Apuliaia , Italy , 20 mi. W. of the sea coast, and 5 mi. N. of the modern Foggia . The legend attributes its foundation to Diomedes , and the figure of a horse, which appears on its coins, shows the importance of horse-breeding in early times in the district. Its territory extended to the sea, and Strabo says that from the extent of the city walls one could gather that it had once been one of the greatest cities of Italy . As a protection against the Samnites , Arpi became an ally of Rome. In the war with Pyrrhus , the Arpani aided Rome with a contingent of 4000 foot and 400 horse. Arpi remained faithful to Rome until Rome’s defeat at the battle of Cannae , but the consul Quintus Fabius Maximus, son of the famous Roman dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus , captured it in 213 B.C., and it never recovered its former importance. It lay on a by-road from Luceria to Sipontum . No Roman inscriptions have, indeed, been found here, and remains of antiquity are scanty. Foggia is its medieval representative. Frequently Asked Questions How long until my order is shipped?: Depending on the volume of sales, it may take up to 5 business days for shipment of your order after the receipt of payment. 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