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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 1848598, member: 56859"]Collect, I really love that coin and have been actively looking for one of my own <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here's an assortment of Klazomenai winged boars, Pigasus if you will <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]308440[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html</a> :</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Aelian, On Animals 12. 38 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) :</i></p><p>"I have heard that on Klazomenai [and island west of Smyrna] there was a Sow with wings, and it ravaged the territory of Klazomenai. And Artemon records this in his Annals of Klazomenai. That is why there is a spot named and celebrated as `The Place of the Winged Sow,’ and it is famous. But if anyone regards this as myth, let him do so."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 1848598, member: 56859"]Collect, I really love that coin and have been actively looking for one of my own :) Here's an assortment of Klazomenai winged boars, Pigasus if you will :D [ATTACH=full]308440[/ATTACH] From [url]http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html[/url] : [I]Aelian, On Animals 12. 38 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) :[/I] "I have heard that on Klazomenai [and island west of Smyrna] there was a Sow with wings, and it ravaged the territory of Klazomenai. And Artemon records this in his Annals of Klazomenai. That is why there is a spot named and celebrated as `The Place of the Winged Sow,’ and it is famous. But if anyone regards this as myth, let him do so."[/QUOTE]
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