Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8205892, member: 87809&quot;]Great additions [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] awesome exemplars&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think that the most likely possibility, as stated for the Triumvir denarius, is that it only commemorates Agrippa’s victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, the final triumph for Octavian, which happened the previous September, being so more recent than the battle at Naulochus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding your quote from David Wray:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree with the statement that he was in retirement and they went to visit Theogenes, because Theogenes&nbsp; was one of their teachers in Pergamum</p><p><br /></p><p>In the fall 45 BC Julius Caesar had decided, by the Lex Cassia, to create a new class of patricians. Octavian was one of the members of this new class. Shortly afterwards, and considering the preparations for the Parthian campaign, Caesar sent ahead his great-nephew to Apollonia (today&#039;s Vlora in Albania) were he was to spend the winter. Octavian&#039;s task was to meet the forces in Illyria and Macedonia and get acquainted with military leadership and prepare himself as a future military commander. At the same time he pursued studies in Greek (language) and Rhetoric with Apollodarus in Pergamum; in Mathematics he was taught by Theogenes. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Quintus Salvidienus Rufus were his companions in Octavian&#039;s military and humanistic studies. Therefore during the winter of 45/44 BC in Apollonia and nearby places, Octavian&#039;s time was dedicated to learn under his Greek teachers, and with military exercises. There was no retirement. </p><p>In the spring 44 BC, he took part in the preparation of the forces and their equipment, forces that would be for Caesar. One evening, in the month of March, Octavian received notice about Caesar&#039;s assassination [Appian, Bellum Civile III,9]. His closest advisors and friends in Apollonia recommended him to take care of his security by staying in Apollonia or Macedonia protected by his troops.</p><p>After a few days, the details of the conspirators and murders of Caesar, and about the turbulence happening in Rome, reached Apollonia, Octavian decided to go to Rome.</p><p>He crossed the Adriatic, probably&nbsp; in the last days of March and arrived with a small escort at the port of Lupiae (Lecce) in Calabria, about to the north of Brundisium [Appian, Bellum Civile III, 10]. He didn&#039;t choose the large port of Brundisium, which was controlled by the conservative party, but he chose the small and insignificant Lupiae as his starting point for his way to Rome. This shows the prudence and wisdom that was always later his outstanding characteristic, particularly since he was now only 18 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>My pièce de résistance, not a Cistophorus, but one that I wanted very much to have and which I already shared in December<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p><br /></p><p>Aureus, Lugdunum, 8 BC</p><p>18.73 x 18.65 mm, 12h; 7.912 g</p><p>RIC I 200; Lyon 64 (unlisted dies); Calicó 235; BMCRE 492 = BMCRR Gaul 215</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: ΛVGVSTVS DIVI•F, laureate head right</p><p>Rev.: Jupiter Augustus, bare-head and togate, seated left on curule chair set on low daïs, extending his r. hand toward a cloaked Gaul or German on left, standing right, presenting a child held out in both hands toward Augustus. IMP•XIIII in exergue</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438497[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in