{"product_id":"ancient-greek-coin-apameia-ad-orontem-semi-autonomous-issue-i-century-bc-copy","title":"Ancient Greek Coin Arados in Phoenicia (II Century BC) Bronze coin","description":"\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"\u003eYou are buying the ONE ancient Greek coin as pictured. 100% Authenticity Guaranteed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"mb-0 mt-3\"\u003eGreek city of Arados in Phoenicia (II Century BC) Bronze coin. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"mb-0 mt-3\"\u003eObverse: Head of Tyche\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"mb-0 mt-3\"\u003eReverse: Stern or ram of galley, AP monogram above; Aradian era date in exergue. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"mb-0 mt-3\"\u003eDiameter: 21mm        Weight: 6.00g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eLifetime Authenticity Guaranteed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eBackground\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAn island off the coast of Phoenicia. An important city of northern Phoenicia, Arados itself occupied an island but it controlled an extensive area on the mainland. It possessed a harbor on the mainland, called Antaradus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTyche \u003c\/b\u003e(meaning \"luck\"; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. She is the daughter of Aphrodite and Zeus or Hermes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn literature, she might be given various genealogies, as a daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite, or considered as one of the Oceanids, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, or of Zeus. She was connected with Nemesis and Agathos Daimon (\"good spirit\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Greek historian Polybius believed that when no cause can be discovered to events such as floods, droughts, frosts or even in politics, then the cause of these events may be fairly attributed to Tyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWorship\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncreasingly during the Hellenistic period, cities venerated their own specific iconic version of Tyche, wearing a mural crown (a crown like the walls of the city).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTyche had temples at Caesarea Maritima, Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople. In Alexandria the \u003ci\u003eTychaeon\u003c\/i\u003e, the temple of Tyche, was described by Libanius as one of the most magnificent of the entire Hellenistic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was uniquely venerated at Itanos in Crete, as \u003ci\u003eTyche Protogeneia\u003c\/i\u003e, linked with the Athenian Protogeneia (\"firstborn\"), daughter of Erechtheus, whose self-sacrifice saved the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStylianos Spyridakis concisely expressed Tyche's appeal in a Hellenistic world of arbitrary violence and unmeaning reverses: \"In the turbulent years of the Epigoni of Alexander, an awareness of the instability of human affairs led people to believe that Tyche, the blind mistress of Fortune, governed mankind with an inconstancy which explained the vicissitudes of the time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDepictions\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTyche appears on many coins of the Hellenistic period in the three centuries before the Christian era, especially from cities in the Aegean. Unpredictable turns of fortune drive the complicated plotlines of Hellenistic romances, such as \u003ci\u003eLeucippe and Clitophon\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eDaphnis and Chloe\u003c\/i\u003e. She experienced a resurgence in another era of uneasy change, the final days of publicly sanctioned Paganism, between the late-fourth-century emperors Julian and Theodosius I who definitively closed the temples. The effectiveness of her capricious power even achieved respectability in philosophical circles during that generation, though among poets it was a commonplace to revile her for a fickle harlot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn medieval art, she was depicted as carrying a cornucopia, an emblematic ship's rudder, and the wheel of fortune, or she may stand on the wheel, presiding over the entire circle of fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe constellation of Virgo is sometimes identified as the heavenly figure of Tyche, as well as other goddesses such as Demeter and Astraea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAthena\u003c\/b\u003e or \u003cb\u003eAthene\u003c\/b\u003e (Latin: \u003ci\u003eMinerva\u003c\/i\u003e), also referred to as \u003cb\u003ePallas Athena\u003c\/b\u003e, is the goddess of war, civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, crafts, justice and skill in Greek mythology. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is also a shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens. The Athenians built the Parthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens, in her honour (Athena Parthenos). Athena's cult as the patron of Athens seems to have existed from the earliest times and was so persistent that archaic myths about her were recast to adapt to cultural changes. In her role as a protector of the city (\u003ci\u003epolis\u003c\/i\u003e), many people throughout the Greek world worshiped Athena as \u003ci\u003eAthena Polias\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Athena of the city\"). Athens and Athena bear etymologically connected names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003cb\u003egalley \u003c\/b\u003e is a type of ship propelled by rowers that originated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and was used for warfare, trade and piracy from the first millennium BC. Galleys dominated naval warfare in the Mediterranean from the 8th century BC until development of advanced sailing warships in the 17th century. Galleys fought in the wars of Assyria, ancient Phoenicia, Greece, Carthage and Rome until the 4th century AD. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire galleys formed the mainstay of the Byzantine navy and other navies of successors of the Roman Empire, as well as new Muslim navies. Medieval Mediterranean states, notably the Italian maritime republics, including Venice, Pisa, Genoa and the Ottoman Empire relied on them as the primary warships of their fleets until the 17th century, when they were gradually replaced by sailing warships. Galleys continued to be applied in minor roles in the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea even after the introduction of steam propelled ships in the early 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Authentic Ancients","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52940484608299,"sku":null,"price":138.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/8753\/0027\/files\/ScreenShot2026-03-21at7.07.45pm.png?v=1774081456","url":"https:\/\/www.authenticancients.com\/products\/ancient-greek-coin-apameia-ad-orontem-semi-autonomous-issue-i-century-bc-copy","provider":"Authentic Ancients ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}