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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4507568, member: 75937"]I have long been puzzled why Thessalonica in Macedon is essentially the only city in the Roman provincial series to issue coins depicting the Kabeiroi when the seat of their cult seems to have been Samothrace and Lemnos. But this passage from the final paragraph of William Smith's <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DC%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dcabeiri-bio-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DC%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dcabeiri-bio-1" rel="nofollow">entry on the Kabeiroi</a> in his <i>A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology</i> explains:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>The reverence paid by the Macedonians to the Cabeiri may be inferred from the fact of Philip and Olympias being initiated in the Samothracian mysteries, and of Alexander erecting altars to the Cabeiri at the close of his Eastern expedition. (Plut. Alex. 2; Philostr. de Vit. Apollon. 2.43.)</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Alexander the Great's half-sister (a daughter of Philip II) was named Thessalonike, after whom the city of Thessalonica is named. It sounds like Kabeiroi worship may have been initiated in this city by Alexander himself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4507568, member: 75937"]I have long been puzzled why Thessalonica in Macedon is essentially the only city in the Roman provincial series to issue coins depicting the Kabeiroi when the seat of their cult seems to have been Samothrace and Lemnos. But this passage from the final paragraph of William Smith's [URL='http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DC%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dcabeiri-bio-1']entry on the Kabeiroi[/URL] in his [I]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology[/I] explains: [INDENT]The reverence paid by the Macedonians to the Cabeiri may be inferred from the fact of Philip and Olympias being initiated in the Samothracian mysteries, and of Alexander erecting altars to the Cabeiri at the close of his Eastern expedition. (Plut. Alex. 2; Philostr. de Vit. Apollon. 2.43.)[/INDENT] Alexander the Great's half-sister (a daughter of Philip II) was named Thessalonike, after whom the city of Thessalonica is named. It sounds like Kabeiroi worship may have been initiated in this city by Alexander himself.[/QUOTE]
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