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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4099066, member: 19463&quot;]I would suggest a person most interested in Mythology needs to collect Roman Provincial (Greek Imperial is another term for the same thing).&nbsp; In addition to gods just standing there quite a few show some action or links to a story.&nbsp; The first step would be to get comfortable with the Greek alphabet including the forms common in the Roman period that you don&#039;t see in the Classical era. This would include the &#039;lunate sigma&#039; C and realizing that they sometimes used ligate combinations for pairs of letters.&nbsp; Also learn to count in Greek which is just the alphabet with a couple added letters from the Archaic period that were dropped from the language otherwise.&nbsp; In addition get comfortable with the fact that the Greeks and Romans used different names for the gods (except both used Apollo for a reason I do not understand) and there are a slew of lesser deities honored in some localities but not others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a very weak page from 1998 including tiny photos from the days when I got complaints from users of dial-up modems if I used big images. </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gi.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gi.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/gi.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, these include the Alexandrian series which we don&#039;t need more competition in either. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Phlilip I Alexandria tetradrachm / Serapis with Cerberus (The same figure might be called Pluto at Rome and Hades in Mainland Greece - the dog will be found as Kerberos; for that matter you will find no great consistency on how we moderns transliterate Greek names so you just have to be aware.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1065983[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Philip II and Serapis / Asklepios (god of medicine), Marcianopolis </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1065987[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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