I was wondering about that. Although in Greek the accent is on the MAY (in the nominative, anyway) the following diphthong "ei" is long and...
Eucharisto poli.
Interesting question about the pronunciation of Nicomedia or the pronunciation of any ancient language. The most honest answer is we don't know...
Nice graph.
I agree on the Marius choice as he is one that I had thought about when I posed that question to myself. That guy was quite a character. I think...
Had Julian lived, though I doubt he would have been able to marginalize the Christian religion, his on the job military training showed he had...
How do they compare to the official Seleucid coins in fineness of the silver used in them?
As much as I use the internet to research my ancient and medieval coins, I still very much enjoy looking things up in books like these.
Harry Sidebottom is an author who well combines history with an interesting narrative styleand in an area of history most authors ignore.
Love that aureus. Had the celators used a verb, it undoubtedly would have been in the subjunctive mood.
Back again. I found this in the Wikipedia article on Gallienus. "In 262 the mint in Alexandria started to again issue coins for Gallienus,...
Probably because he issued so many coins that that they are really inexpensive, even the ones that are well struck in decent silver. The larger...
Very nice coins. He issued a huge quantity of coins, some of them wretchedly struck. Yours are examples of some of the better struck coins. nice...
From what I understand his son, Saloninus, was executed after the city he was defending, Cologne, from a besieging army under Postumus fell ....
I have run across that but I find it hard to believe that he had the ability to mount some kind of rescue mission or that Shapur I would have...
I was surprised to read that, too. I will try to find where I read it. It was from a brief biography of the man, not from a coin book.
I understand that there is a lacuna in the Alexandrian coinage indicating that for part of his reign (early on I believe) he did not control that...
Had he died a few years after Augustus only his military successes would have been known to us ( and they were considerable). If he became...
I agree with your estimate of Aurelian. Had he lived a normal lifespan and reigned another ten years or so we would be ranking him up there with...
As you may know the author, or authors, of the Historia Augusta are not considered reliable, often employing invective for insight.
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