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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5140752, member: 110350"]I'm afraid that I have to say that that's unusually absurd for a Wikipedia article. It refers to "ancient legend" but describes only a medieval legend. And says nothing about ancient coins. And cites no scholarly sources whatsoever. Sorry, I'd rather rely on what Pliny has to say. Please don't be so eager to debunk someone's analysis without having any basis for doing so. When Romans wanted to depict "mythological beasts," they knew how to do so, whether by adding, highly exaggerating, andor combining features of known animals. The depictions of the leopard on my coin, and in the mosaic, do none of those things, except perhaps (in the mosaic's case) inflating the animal's size. But that was fairly common in portrayals of large animals, and of humans or deities riding them, and doesn't make those animals mythological. The many coins showing people or deities riding enormous lions don't mean they aren't intended to be lions, or make those lions mythological, or cause us not to call them lions when we describe the coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5140752, member: 110350"]I'm afraid that I have to say that that's unusually absurd for a Wikipedia article. It refers to "ancient legend" but describes only a medieval legend. And says nothing about ancient coins. And cites no scholarly sources whatsoever. Sorry, I'd rather rely on what Pliny has to say. Please don't be so eager to debunk someone's analysis without having any basis for doing so. When Romans wanted to depict "mythological beasts," they knew how to do so, whether by adding, highly exaggerating, andor combining features of known animals. The depictions of the leopard on my coin, and in the mosaic, do none of those things, except perhaps (in the mosaic's case) inflating the animal's size. But that was fairly common in portrayals of large animals, and of humans or deities riding them, and doesn't make those animals mythological. The many coins showing people or deities riding enormous lions don't mean they aren't intended to be lions, or make those lions mythological, or cause us not to call them lions when we describe the coins.[/QUOTE]
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