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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 4769675, member: 80783&quot;][ATTACH=full]1161904[/ATTACH] </p><p>VALERIANVS CAES - Radiate and draped bust of Valerian II right /</p><p>IOVI CRESCENTI - child Jupiter riding right on the goat Amalthea, looking left, right hand raised, left hand holding goat´s horn</p><p>Antoninianus, Lugdunum or Cologne (?), late 256- early 258</p><p>RIC 3, Göbl/MIR 907e, Elmer 67a, Sear 10731</p><p><br /></p><p>The goat Amalthea had been born as nymph and lived on the island of Crete. When she and some other nymphs were playing at a creek, they heard a baby cry in a cave at Mount Ida. They immediately went into the cave and Amalthea was holding and consoling the newborn boy, when his mother returned.</p><p>This was Rhea, wife of the Titan Kronos. Kronos had been prophesied that one of his children would thrust him from the throne, and therefore had devoured all the children his wife had given him. When one day Rhea had realized that she was pregnant again, she had decided to flee and hide. But Kronos quickly became suspicious and searched for her everywhere, and soon stood in front of the cave and demanded that Rhea deliver the child to him. Rhea handed him a stone wrapped in bloody diapers, which Kronos devoured immediately. He then asked Rhea to come with him immediately. She accompanied him for a while, then pretended to be weak from birth, let Kronos go ahead, and ran back.</p><p>When she found her little son save and sound in the caring arms of the young nymph, Rhea asked her to look after little Zeus and turned her into a divine goat so she could feed the child with milk, ambrosia, and nectar.</p><p>She called the beautiful white goat „Amaltheia“, which in Greek means &quot;divine white goat&quot;. Amalthea suckled the child with her milk. From their horns, Zeus drank nectar and ambrosia. In addition, a swarm of bees brought him mountain honey.</p><p>One day, when littlle Zeus cried, Kronos became suspicious and wanted to know who caused the noise in the cave. As he could not enter because he was too tall, he could only stick his head in the mouth of the cave. But before his eyes had grown accustomed to the darkness, Amalthea jumped up and gave him a huge blow with her horns. Amalthea lost one of her horns during this thrust. This horn was later known as the cornucopia. It kept filling up with what its owner wanted.</p><p>Thanks to Amalthea&#039;s care, Zeus soon became so strong that he was able to oust the mighty Kronos from his throne.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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