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<p>[QUOTE="arnoldoe, post: 3054963, member: 72712"]To me i think the Aeneas interpretation seems like it may be more likely..</p><p>The reverse is almost identical to this coin of Octavian showing Aeneas</p><p>[ATTACH=full]765250[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>compared to the coins of Sextus Pompey, which were struck in Sicily (where the eruption happened) and depict both brothers..</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]765249[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As as to why it may only show one brother (if the Catanean brothers interpretation is correct), the earliest known telling of the story by Lycurgus of Athens (330 BC) says that there was only one brother who saved his father.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Let me take an illustration. There is a story that in Sicily,—the tale, though half a legend, will, for the younger ones among you, be well worth the hearing,—a stream of fire burst forth from Etna. This stream, so the story goes, flowing over the countryside, drew near a certain city of the Sicilians. Most men, thinking of their own safety, took to flight; but one of the youths, seeing that his father, now advanced in years, could not escape and was being overtaken by the fire, lifted him up and carried him. Hindered no doubt by the additional weight of his burden, he too was overtaken. And now let us observe the mercy shown by God towards good men. For we are told that the fire spread round that spot in a ring and only those two men were saved, so that the place is still called the Place of the Pious, while those who had fled in haste, leaving their parents to their fate, were all consumed."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, I also found out that that coin was from the Haeberlin Collection too..</p><p>[ATTACH=full]765259[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="arnoldoe, post: 3054963, member: 72712"]To me i think the Aeneas interpretation seems like it may be more likely.. The reverse is almost identical to this coin of Octavian showing Aeneas [ATTACH=full]765250[/ATTACH] compared to the coins of Sextus Pompey, which were struck in Sicily (where the eruption happened) and depict both brothers.. [ATTACH=full]765249[/ATTACH] As as to why it may only show one brother (if the Catanean brothers interpretation is correct), the earliest known telling of the story by Lycurgus of Athens (330 BC) says that there was only one brother who saved his father. "Let me take an illustration. There is a story that in Sicily,—the tale, though half a legend, will, for the younger ones among you, be well worth the hearing,—a stream of fire burst forth from Etna. This stream, so the story goes, flowing over the countryside, drew near a certain city of the Sicilians. Most men, thinking of their own safety, took to flight; but one of the youths, seeing that his father, now advanced in years, could not escape and was being overtaken by the fire, lifted him up and carried him. Hindered no doubt by the additional weight of his burden, he too was overtaken. And now let us observe the mercy shown by God towards good men. For we are told that the fire spread round that spot in a ring and only those two men were saved, so that the place is still called the Place of the Pious, while those who had fled in haste, leaving their parents to their fate, were all consumed." Yeah, I also found out that that coin was from the Haeberlin Collection too.. [ATTACH=full]765259[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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