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<p>[QUOTE="Steelers72, post: 7407094, member: 112504"]Did some more research through archives.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I compiled, Somos or Samos (ancient Greece) is a small island off the cost of modern day Turkey[ATTACH=full]1287819[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The bull depicted on the Augustus denarius is signficant because the island of Somos had a center of practice for the Poseidon cult - believed to be the Temple of Hera [ATTACH=full]1287828[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>“TAU′REUS (Taureos), a surname of Poseidon, given to him either because bulls were sacrificed to him, or because he was the divinity that gave greet pasture to bulls on the sea-coast. (Hes. Seut. Herc. 104; Hom. Od. iii. 6; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. vi. 69.).</p><p>Poseidon was himself responsible for another terrible creature - the <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Minotaur/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Minotaur/" rel="nofollow">Minotaur</a>. Minos' failure to sacrifice the bull given as a gift by the god resulted in Poseidon bewitching Minos' wife Pasiphae into falling in love with the bull; and the fruit of their amorous relationship was the half-man, half-bull creature which inhabited the <a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Labyrinth/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Labyrinth/" rel="nofollow">labyrinth</a> of Knossos.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins minted in this region, both Roman and Greek, tend to depict a bull paying homage to the region’s ancient Greek culture. I wonder if Augustus was told the bull was added for other reasons, such as his empire’s virility and strength by the Somos minter</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting enough, a popular hotel on the island is named after Poseidon. <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g776008-d1183326-Reviews-or5-Poseidon_Hotel_Kokkari_Samos_Greece-Kokkari_Samos_Northeast_Aegean_Islands.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g776008-d1183326-Reviews-or5-Poseidon_Hotel_Kokkari_Samos_Greece-Kokkari_Samos_Northeast_Aegean_Islands.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g776008-d1183326-Reviews-or5-Poseidon_Hotel_Kokkari_Samos_Greece-Kokkari_Samos_Northeast_Aegean_Islands.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Steelers72, post: 7407094, member: 112504"]Did some more research through archives. From what I compiled, Somos or Samos (ancient Greece) is a small island off the cost of modern day Turkey[ATTACH=full]1287819[/ATTACH] The bull depicted on the Augustus denarius is signficant because the island of Somos had a center of practice for the Poseidon cult - believed to be the Temple of Hera [ATTACH=full]1287828[/ATTACH] “TAU′REUS (Taureos), a surname of Poseidon, given to him either because bulls were sacrificed to him, or because he was the divinity that gave greet pasture to bulls on the sea-coast. (Hes. Seut. Herc. 104; Hom. Od. iii. 6; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. vi. 69.). Poseidon was himself responsible for another terrible creature - the [URL='https://www.worldhistory.org/Minotaur/']Minotaur[/URL]. Minos' failure to sacrifice the bull given as a gift by the god resulted in Poseidon bewitching Minos' wife Pasiphae into falling in love with the bull; and the fruit of their amorous relationship was the half-man, half-bull creature which inhabited the [URL='https://www.worldhistory.org/Labyrinth/']labyrinth[/URL] of Knossos.” Coins minted in this region, both Roman and Greek, tend to depict a bull paying homage to the region’s ancient Greek culture. I wonder if Augustus was told the bull was added for other reasons, such as his empire’s virility and strength by the Somos minter Interesting enough, a popular hotel on the island is named after Poseidon. [URL]https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g776008-d1183326-Reviews-or5-Poseidon_Hotel_Kokkari_Samos_Greece-Kokkari_Samos_Northeast_Aegean_Islands.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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