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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 6377997, member: 110350"]Thanks, everyone, for posting all your wonderful coins. (I always try to think of as many options as possible for getting people involved!)</p><p><br /></p><p>And thanks for the etymological lesson connecting "desultory" to "desultor," [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]. Desultory has always been one of those fairly obscure adjectives that I often see but can never quite remember its exact meaning (probably because I didn't learn it as a child). I don't think I'll ever forget it now! </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, has anyone ever seen a performer riding two horses at a circus and jumping back and forth between them? I have, and I wonder how many of them know how old the tradition is. For all I know it goes back at least to the days of ancient Crete and the bull-leaping portrayed in Minoan art. (I vividly remember the wonderful chapters in Mary Renault's "The King Must Die" about young Theseus's experiences in the bull ring in Crete.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As for coins portraying the legendary Kings of Rome, we know there are multiple coins portraying #1 (Romulus, at least as an infant), #2 (Numa Pompilius), and #4 (Ancus Marcius). Does anyone know if there are any coins portraying #3 (Tullus Hostilius), #5 (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus), #6 (Servius Tullius), or #7 (Lucius Tarquinius Superbus)? I'm aware, of course, that the last one at least was viewed as a "bad guy" by the later Romans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Separately, what is the current historical consensus as to whether there's definitive evidence of the historicity of any of the named Kings -- i.e., whether any of them actually existed? We know that a monarchy existed (although, from reading Mary Beard and other sources, the details of its structure are murky, for example, whether the early ones were anything more than warlord types). And I do remember reading that there were probably many more Kings than the named seven (given that it's rather unlikely that they could have actually reigned an average of 30+ years apiece). But did any of those seven named Kings exist?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 6377997, member: 110350"]Thanks, everyone, for posting all your wonderful coins. (I always try to think of as many options as possible for getting people involved!) And thanks for the etymological lesson connecting "desultory" to "desultor," [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]. Desultory has always been one of those fairly obscure adjectives that I often see but can never quite remember its exact meaning (probably because I didn't learn it as a child). I don't think I'll ever forget it now! By the way, has anyone ever seen a performer riding two horses at a circus and jumping back and forth between them? I have, and I wonder how many of them know how old the tradition is. For all I know it goes back at least to the days of ancient Crete and the bull-leaping portrayed in Minoan art. (I vividly remember the wonderful chapters in Mary Renault's "The King Must Die" about young Theseus's experiences in the bull ring in Crete.) As for coins portraying the legendary Kings of Rome, we know there are multiple coins portraying #1 (Romulus, at least as an infant), #2 (Numa Pompilius), and #4 (Ancus Marcius). Does anyone know if there are any coins portraying #3 (Tullus Hostilius), #5 (Lucius Tarquinius Priscus), #6 (Servius Tullius), or #7 (Lucius Tarquinius Superbus)? I'm aware, of course, that the last one at least was viewed as a "bad guy" by the later Romans. Separately, what is the current historical consensus as to whether there's definitive evidence of the historicity of any of the named Kings -- i.e., whether any of them actually existed? We know that a monarchy existed (although, from reading Mary Beard and other sources, the details of its structure are murky, for example, whether the early ones were anything more than warlord types). And I do remember reading that there were probably many more Kings than the named seven (given that it's rather unlikely that they could have actually reigned an average of 30+ years apiece). But did any of those seven named Kings exist?[/QUOTE]
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