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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8314415, member: 91461&quot;]1183 BCE was a good year to be a Hellene. Not so good to be a flourishing coastal trade town that&#039;s a primary route into the east... with a REALLY hot princess<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ta boot<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472019[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Per chief librarian of the library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others, and his meticulous calculations today is the very same day that the night before a bunch of Greeks had a horrible idea, hid in a wooden horse, creating the phrase, per Trojan priest Laocoön, &quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472014[/ATTACH]</p><p>&quot; and then the next morning committed genocide, rapine and out and out skullduggery of an epic nature to echo through the ages<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":jimlad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie77" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And so ended the Trojan war.</p><p>Funny but true, as some may recall, the end of the war is nowhere mentioned in the Iliad. Homer doesn&#039;t bring it up until the sequel, Odysseus Strikes Back!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472016[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Would the epic story of a small skirmish between two burgeoning civilizations have made it down the ages of it weren&#039;t for this guy/group of guys?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472023[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ionia, Smyrna. Circa 125-115 BC. Æ 20mm (21mm, 8.27g). Phanokrates, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / The poet Homer seated left, holding scroll. Milne, Autonomous 194a; SNG Copenhagen. Former Kairos Numismatik</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472021[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And how would it feel to bust your buns at war for a decade, NOT go on a kill crazy rampage of your own men like the other Ajax, and still be Ajax the lesser (also known as Ajax the Locrian, hence the coinage)??</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472022[/ATTACH]</p><p>Lokris Opuntia</p><p>Hemidrachm around 350 BCE 2.60 g. Head of a nymph with reed wreath, simple ear pendants and necklace to the right / Ajax in the Corinthian helmet with drawn short sword storming to the right, holding above the left arm oval shield with a lion as inner jewelry, spear lying on the ground. BMC 26</p><p>Very nice</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472026[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Don&#039;t worry, Athena made him pay the ultimate price for this one)</p><p><br /></p><p>Or how about the small part of Odysseus being made into a full blown leading man hero in the much more fantasy sci-fi The Oddesy?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472024[/ATTACH]</p><p>C. Mamilius Limetanus</p><p>82 BC.</p><p>Silver Serrate Denarius, 4.06 g., 19 mm.</p><p>Obv. Bust of Mercury right, wearing petasus and holding caduceus.</p><p>Rev. Ulysses (Odysseus) greeting his dog Argos who wags his tail in recognition, the scene recounted in Odyssey 17.290 ff.</p><p>Crawford 362/1; Sydenham 741.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one for the defeated. Much like the Greeks were known as Achaean, Danaad and or Hellene, the Trojans were also known as Dardanoi. Here&#039;s one from them or their neighbors at the early dawn of coinage... though [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] would say it&#039;s just chicken n waffles <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472038[/ATTACH]</p><p>TROAS, Dardanos</p><p>c. 450-420 BCE</p><p>AR obol; 9 mm, 0.56 gm</p><p>Obv: cock (or just cock head) standing left</p><p>Rev: cross-hatch pattern</p><p>Ref: Nomismata 3, 303; Demeester 98; SNG Ashmolean 1119</p><p>Former: Savoca</p><p><br /></p><p>And we can&#039;t forget the myriad of gods and Goddesses in the mix:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472027[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]7Znh0OM9jiA[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>So please show all of your coins related to the Trojan war (you&#039;ve got more than you think)![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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