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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 6716935, member: 99456&quot;]Excellent Heraklean coins, all. [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], I see the appeal of the paired Septimius and Julia.&nbsp; With so much lion wrestling it seems that this coin should make an appearance.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1270940[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>C. Poblicius Q.f.</b>, 80 BC, AR Serrate Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> ROMA, Helmeted and draped bust of Roma right; B above</p><p><b>Rev:</b> C POBLICI Q F, Hercules standing left, strangling Nemean Lion; club at his feet; bow and arrows in quiver in left field; B above</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 380/1; Sydenham 768; Poblicia 9</p><p>@Terence Cheesman, a stunning coin as always and thanks for connecting Cleopatra.&nbsp; Propertius writing late first century BC - born ~50 BC - draws clear connections.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">&quot;Omphale, the Lydian girl bathing in Gyges’ lake, gained such a name for beauty that Hercules who had established his pillars in a world at peace, drew out soft spinner’s tasks with hardened hands.&quot;</font></p><p><br /></p><p>and he goes on describing the awfulness of Cleopatra, leading to the thought:</p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">&quot;What was it worth to have shattered Tarquin’s axes, whose life branded him with the name of ‘Proud’, if now we had to endure this woman? Celebrate a triumph Rome, and saved by Augustus beg long life for him!&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4">- Propertius, <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PropertiusBkThree.php#anchor_Toc201112466" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PropertiusBkThree.php#anchor_Toc201112466" rel="nofollow">Elegies, III.11</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Fifth king of Rome, Tarquin&#039;s tyrannical reign motivating the end of the monarchy.&nbsp; I am curious about the timing of the stories connecting Anthony-Cleopatra / Herakles-Omphale and how the telling of the story of Herakles may have evolved with the story of Cleopatra and Mark Antony.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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