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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4616599, member: 110350&quot;]I am unaware of it too, except for the mention in that unusually poor Wikipedia article illustrated with a mosaic or painting of Dionysos with a leopard.&nbsp; As I said earlier in this thread, it says nothing specific whatsoever about the pre-Medieval period, and I haven&#039;t found anything other than New Agey-type websites with lots of woo and no actual citations to classical mythology. So I&#039;m rather skeptical that there was such a specific animal as a &quot;mythological panther&quot; in classical mythology with the supernatural powers mentioned in that article.&nbsp; Especially one covered with spots like a leopard that wasn&#039;t actually a leopard! Yes, some of the leopards portrayed with Dionysos are larger than life, and yes, I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if the ancients&nbsp; had inaccurate notions about leopard life nd behavior, but the same was true of a lot of other animals.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea what the animal is on that coin.&nbsp; Panther? Cerberus? Lion?&nbsp; Have you tried looking for portrayals of different kinds of animals in the Beazley archive to see if you can find anything similar? See <a href="https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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