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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7308445, member: 99456&quot;]I think this guy probably qualifies as &quot;Hellenized Barbarian&quot; by the standards of the Greeks - for that matter all of us in this CT thread probably qualify as Hellenized Barbarians as well. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277679[/ATTACH]<b>Kings of Armenia, Tigranes II ‘the Great’</b>, 95-56 BC, Æ Chalkous, struck 70-66 BC</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Head of Tigranes right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star between two eagles</p><p><b>Rev:</b> BAΣIΛEΩΣ - BAΣIΛEΩN / TIΓPANOY Tyche seated right, holding palm; below, river-god swimming right</p><p><br /></p><p>I am reminded of this poem &quot;Waiting for the Barbarians&quot; written in Greek November 1898 and first published in 1904 ...I&#039;ll only quote the concluding lines:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>...</p><p>Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?</p><p>Those people were a kind of solution.</p><p>-C.P. Cavafy, <a href="https://kenyonreview.org/programs/resources-for-teachers/konstantinos-kavaphes/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://kenyonreview.org/programs/resources-for-teachers/konstantinos-kavaphes/" rel="nofollow">Waiting for the Barbarians</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><b>Next:</b> Another Armenian Coin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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