TERMESSOS MINOR in LYCIA 1CenBC Zeus Scepter Thunderbolt RARE Greek Coin i56074

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Greek city of Termessos Minor in Lycia Bronze 20mm (6.26 grams) Struck 1st Century B.C. Reference: Sear 5358; SNG France 2090; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 4455  (Lycia) Laureate head of Zeus right, scepter behind. Winged thunderbolt; TEP - MHΣ / ΣE - ΩΝ above and  beneath.

A colony of the Pisidian Termessos; the exact site is  uncertain, but is probably to be looked for in the vicinity of Oinoanda in  northern Lycia.

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In the ancient Greek   religion, Zeus was the  "Father of Gods and men" (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν  τε ) who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus   as a father ruled the family. He was the god of sky   and thunder   in Greek mythology .  His Roman   counterpart is Jupiter   and Etruscan   counterpart is Tinia .

Zeus was the child of Cronus   and Rhea ,  and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he was married to Hera , although, at the  oracle of Dodona ,  his consort was Dione :  according to the Iliad ,  he is the father of Aphrodite   by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and  heroic offspring, including Athena , Apollo   and Artemis , Hermes , Persephone   (by Demeter ), Dionysus , Perseus , Heracles , Helen of Troy , Minos ,  and the Muses   (by Mnemosyne );  by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares , Hebe   and Hephaestus .

As Walter Burkert   points out in his book, Greek Religion , "Even the gods who are not his  natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence."  For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods ,  who oversaw the universe. As Pausanias   observed, "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". In  Hesiod's Theogony   Zeus assigns the various gods their roles. In the Homeric Hymns he is  referred to as the chieftain of the gods.

His symbols are the thunderbolt , eagle , bull ,  and oak .  In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer"  also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East ,  such as the scepter .  Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing,  striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated  in majesty.


Oenoanda   or Oinoanda (Greek: τὰ Οἰνόανδα ) was an ancient Greek city in Lycia , in the upper valley of the River Xanthus . It is noted for the  philosophical inscription by the Epicurean , Diogenes of Oenoanda . The ruins of the city lie  west of the modern village İncealiler in the Fethiye district of Muğla Province , Turkey , which partly overlies the ancient site.

History

The early history of the settlement is obscure, in spite of an exploratory  survey carried out, with permission of the Turkish authorities, by the British  Institute at Ankara (BIAA) in 1974–76. It seems that Oinoanda became a colony of Termessos about 200-190 BC and was also called  Termessos Minor (or Termessos i pros Oinoanda). Oenoanda was the most southerly  of the Kibyran Tetrapoleis in the Hellenistic Period , which was dissolved by L. Licinius Murena in 84 BCE, whereupon  Oenoanda became part of the of Lycia koinon ,  as its inscriptions abundantly demonstrate.

Diogenes carved a summary of the philosophy of Epicurus onto a portico wall, which originally extended about  80 meters. The inscription sets out Epicurus ' teachings on physics , epistemology , and ethics . It was originally about 25,000 words  long and filled 260 square meters of wall space. The inscription has been  assigned on epigraphic grounds to the Hadrianic period, 117–138  CE.  The stoa was dismantled in the second half of the third century CE to make room  for a defensive wall; previously the site had been undefended.

The site was first noted by Hoskyns and Forbes, in 1841, and published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society , xii (1843). The extensive  philosophical inscriptions of Diogenes of Oenoanda were identified later from  scattered fragments, apparently from the stoa. It cannot be assumed that Diogenes erected himself. Evidence  for an ancient Roman Bridge at Oinoanda has surfaced in the 1990s.  By 2012 over 300 fragments of Diogenes' stoa had been identified, varying in  size from a few letters to passages of several sentences covering more than one  block. New archaeological work is being conducted at the site by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut .

Oenoanda is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church .


Lycia   was a geopolitical region in Anatolia in what are now the provinces of Antalya and Muğla on the southern coast of Turkey , and Burdur Province inland. Known to history since  the records of ancient Egypt and the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age , it was populated by speakers  of the Luwian language group. Written records began to  be inscribed in stone in the Lycian language (a later form of Luwian) after  Lycia's involuntary incorporation into the Achaemenid Empire in the Iron Age. At that time  (546 BC) the Luwian speakers were decimated, and Lycia received an influx of  Persian speakers.

Lycia fought for the Persians in the  Persian Wars , but on the defeat of the Achaemenid Empire by the Greeks, it became  intermittently a free agent. After a brief membership in the Athenian Empire , it seceded and became  independent (its treaty with Athens had omitted the usual non-secession clause),  was under the Persians again, revolted again, was conquered by Mausolus of Caria , returned to the Persians, and went under  Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by Alexander the Great . Due to the influx of Greek  speakers and the sparsity of the remaining Lycian speakers, Lycia was totally  Hellenized under the Macedonians. The Lycian language disappeared from  inscriptions and coinage.

On  defeating Antiochus III in 188 BC the Romans gave Lycia  to Rhodes for 20 years, taking it back in 168 BC.  In these latter stages of the Roman republic United States Constitution, influencing their  thoughts.

Despite home rule under republican principles Lycia was not a sovereign state  and had not been since its defeat by the Carians . In 43 AD the Roman emperor  Claudius dissolved the league. Lycia was  incorporated into the Roman Empire with a provincial status. It  became an eparchy of the Eastern, or Byzantine Empire , continuing to speak Greek  even after being joined by communities of Turkish language speakers in the early 2nd  millennium. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century, Lycia  was under the Ottoman Empire , and was inherited by the Turkish Republic on the fall of that empire.  The Greeks were withdrawn when the border between Greece and Turkey was  negotiated in 1923.


        

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