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<p>[QUOTE="NewStyleKing, post: 4511671, member: 106483"]belong to the precise period of reorganisation, since it now seems that this took place during the reign of Philip V,</p><p>i.e. before 179 BC, whereas the coinage seems to date from the late 170s or early 160s at the earliest.</p><p>27</p><p> However, the recent redating of a Rhodian inscription recognising the</p><p>Soteria to some time between169 and 167 BC shows that the diplomatic activity surrounding the recognition of the festival carried on for some time and into the period in which we can comfortably date the beginning of the coinage.</p><p>28</p><p> The important point to stress is that, at the city of Cyzicus, the period of the creation of this new style of coin coincides with one in which the city was upgrading its civic festival and embarking upon a major, international effort to have this recognized. Finally we can return to Athens, which inaugurated its wreathed coinage perhaps 10-15 years later. As Julia Shear has put it:</p><p>In 167, the Roman Senate rewarded the Athenians with control of Delos,Lemnos, Imbros, and Skyros…. Delegations from these four islands very probably took part in the succeeding Great Panathenaia in 166/5. The importance of the celebration and its clear association with the identity of the city may be seen in the introduction at just this time of Athenian new-style coinage which, on the reverse, showed an owl standing on a horizontal Panathenaic amphora and surrounded by an olive crown. Although this new type may be connected with the political events of the 160’s, it could equally have been intended to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Great Panathenaia and it emphasised the close connection between the city, the goddess, and the festival.</p><p>29</p><p>In fact, although the Great Panathenaia of 162 occurred at a remarkable confluence of Athenian good fortune and a major anniversary, the games had been growing for a while. In particular, the tribal hippic events had increased to 4 by 182/1 BC, and were further augmented with horse races and the four-horse chariot in 178/7 BC, and a second set of tribal events in the hippodrome and in the Great games of 162/1 theatrical contests were added to the festival. AsS.V. Tracy and C. Habicht, writing of these years have put it, the Athenians chose… to use the Panathenaia to showcase their city and to remind their contemporaries of Athens’ role as the cultural leader of the Hellenic world. In response to their invitation, professional athletes, influential politicians, royal ministers and generals, queens and kings flocked to Athens or sent their horses, jockeys, and chariots.</p><p>30</p><p>The advent of the New Style coinage thus falls within a period of significant augmentation of the festival to which it seems to refer in its reverse type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NewStyleKing, post: 4511671, member: 106483"]belong to the precise period of reorganisation, since it now seems that this took place during the reign of Philip V, i.e. before 179 BC, whereas the coinage seems to date from the late 170s or early 160s at the earliest. 27 However, the recent redating of a Rhodian inscription recognising the Soteria to some time between169 and 167 BC shows that the diplomatic activity surrounding the recognition of the festival carried on for some time and into the period in which we can comfortably date the beginning of the coinage. 28 The important point to stress is that, at the city of Cyzicus, the period of the creation of this new style of coin coincides with one in which the city was upgrading its civic festival and embarking upon a major, international effort to have this recognized. Finally we can return to Athens, which inaugurated its wreathed coinage perhaps 10-15 years later. As Julia Shear has put it: In 167, the Roman Senate rewarded the Athenians with control of Delos,Lemnos, Imbros, and Skyros…. Delegations from these four islands very probably took part in the succeeding Great Panathenaia in 166/5. The importance of the celebration and its clear association with the identity of the city may be seen in the introduction at just this time of Athenian new-style coinage which, on the reverse, showed an owl standing on a horizontal Panathenaic amphora and surrounded by an olive crown. Although this new type may be connected with the political events of the 160’s, it could equally have been intended to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Great Panathenaia and it emphasised the close connection between the city, the goddess, and the festival. 29 In fact, although the Great Panathenaia of 162 occurred at a remarkable confluence of Athenian good fortune and a major anniversary, the games had been growing for a while. In particular, the tribal hippic events had increased to 4 by 182/1 BC, and were further augmented with horse races and the four-horse chariot in 178/7 BC, and a second set of tribal events in the hippodrome and in the Great games of 162/1 theatrical contests were added to the festival. AsS.V. Tracy and C. Habicht, writing of these years have put it, the Athenians chose… to use the Panathenaia to showcase their city and to remind their contemporaries of Athens’ role as the cultural leader of the Hellenic world. In response to their invitation, professional athletes, influential politicians, royal ministers and generals, queens and kings flocked to Athens or sent their horses, jockeys, and chariots. 30 The advent of the New Style coinage thus falls within a period of significant augmentation of the festival to which it seems to refer in its reverse type.[/QUOTE]
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