Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Impressive! Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On May 27, 2011, at 1:58 AM, John Nebel wrote: > Inspired by Jim's Homeric photos... > > http://photos.csd.net/protesilaus.html > > Mouse over to see reverse, click for an enlargement. > > The head on the coin is Protesilaus, an Homeric hero; his name is > retrograde in the crest of his helmet. The coin's reverse is the stern of > a ship with the letters SKIO in the corners of the incuse naming the town > Skione which issued the coin in the early 5th century BC. The ship is > anachronistic as it appears to be 5th century design, more advanced than > those used in the Trojan war around 700 years earlier. > > "They who held Phylake and Pyrasos of the flowers, > the precinct of Demeter, and Iton, mother of sheepflocks, > Antron by the sea-shore, and Pteleos deep in the meadows, > of these in turn fighting Protesilaus was leader > while he lived; but now the black earth had closed him under, > whose wife, cheeks torn for grief, was left behind in Phylake > and a marriage half completed; a Dardanian man had killed him > as he leapt from his ship, far the first of all the Achaians." > > (Iliad 2.695) > > Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protesilaus > > > > Best, > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >