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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8318317, member: 91461&quot;]Bump.</p><p>Philopoemen is getting further away still... almost to page two without a single response. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie41" alt=":depressed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Does nobody recall Philopoemen?</p><p>Polybius carriered the man&#039;s ashes at his funeral and wrote about him in his histories juxtaposing him with one of Rome&#039;s greatest generals. </p><p>At one point he was public enemy #1 on Rome&#039;s list.</p><p>Snyder and Rubens found him worth adulation:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473034[/ATTACH]</p><p>(The painting is meant to show how loved he was vs his having given up all pretense of ostentatiousness. He refused to wear jewelry and wore the meekest of clothes)</p><p><br /></p><p>Any Achaian (Achaean) league coins out there?</p><p>Or anything related to this all time great<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />‽?</p><p><br /></p><p>This BD surviving coin would&#039;ve been around and minted probably just before Philopoemen was born:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473042[/ATTACH]</p><p>ACHAIA, Pellene</p><p>Circa 300-250 BCE Æ</p><p>13mm Kithara / Tripod.</p><p>BCD Peloponnesos 601;</p><p>SNG Copenhagen -223. VF[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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