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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3404209, member: 57463"]The facing head on the right comes from the royal tombs at Vergina. The coin at the left is a standard Macedonian issue with Zeus obverse and a rider crowning a horse on the reverse. Iconographers call this Zeus because any well-groomed mature male with no other attributes is Zeus by default. If his beard were not so nice and if he were in a lion’s skin, this would be called Herakles. If the name of the town this coin was found in had been Poseidonia, then this would be Poseidon. In fact, this is Philip. You can call it Zeus. Philip would not have minded. And it is not accidental that Zeus was the father of Herakles just as Philip was the father of Alexander.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]903962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]903963[/ATTACH]</p><p>(From "Alexander as Herakles" paper delivered at "Coinage and Identity in the Ancient World," Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, November 3-5, 2004.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3404209, member: 57463"]The facing head on the right comes from the royal tombs at Vergina. The coin at the left is a standard Macedonian issue with Zeus obverse and a rider crowning a horse on the reverse. Iconographers call this Zeus because any well-groomed mature male with no other attributes is Zeus by default. If his beard were not so nice and if he were in a lion’s skin, this would be called Herakles. If the name of the town this coin was found in had been Poseidonia, then this would be Poseidon. In fact, this is Philip. You can call it Zeus. Philip would not have minded. And it is not accidental that Zeus was the father of Herakles just as Philip was the father of Alexander. [ATTACH=full]903962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]903963[/ATTACH] (From "Alexander as Herakles" paper delivered at "Coinage and Identity in the Ancient World," Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, November 3-5, 2004.)[/QUOTE]
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