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Sango Hellespont 8001 large dinner plate made in Japan. https://t.co/gtebOeE3yz via @Etsy #BuyfromGroovy #antiques #tabledecor #tableware #Sango #Hellespont #SangoHellespont #Etsysellers
#Greek Islands off #Troas, #Tenedos #Bozcaada
#Tenedos was an island of strategic importance throughout antiquity due to its location at the entrance to the #Hellespont, which ensured every ship sailing to or from the #Propontis and the Black Sea would pass by. It is referenced in both #Homer's #Iliad and #Virgil's #Aeneid, in the latter as the place where the #Greek fleet was concealed towards the end of their siege of #Troy in order to trick the #Trojans into taking the fateful #Trojan horse within the walls of the city.
Seen on Tenedos coins #labrys is a reference to the Tenedian foundational myth, in which the hero Tenes used an axe to sever the mooring lines of his father's ship when he attempted to land on the island to reconcile with his son. In #Pausanias' version of the myth, he concludes "for this reason a by-word has arisen, which is used of those who make a stern refusal: so and so has cut whatever it may be with an axe of Tenedos" [#ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΑΣ 10.14.4].
Indeed, #Cicero, writing jokes to his brother Quintus about Tenedos' unsuccessful request to the Roman senate to be made a free city: "well then, the liberty of the Tenedians has been chopped by the Tenedian axe" [Letters to his brother Quintus, 2.9].
The early coinage of Tenedos bore janiform heads similar to the one here, but on those the male head was bare and without a laurel wreath. Those heads portrayed two characters from a local foundation legend: Tenes and his young step-mother and lover, Philonome.
However, even in ancient times the combination of the janiform, male/female head and the double axe on the reverse gave rise to tales of the punishment for adultery, and by the end of the 5th century the head on the coins of Tenedos was transformed into one of #Zeus and #Hera.
TR👇
🔗https://t.co/53cJOX4jHI
![AntikSikkeler's tweet photo. #Greek Islands off #Troas, #Tenedos #Bozcaada
#Tenedos was an island of strategic importance throughout antiquity due to its location at the entrance to the #Hellespont, which ensured every ship sailing to or from the #Propontis and the Black Sea would pass by. It is referenced in both #Homer's #Iliad and #Virgil's #Aeneid, in the latter as the place where the #Greek fleet was concealed towards the end of their siege of #Troy in order to trick the #Trojans into taking the fateful #Trojan horse within the walls of the city.
Seen on Tenedos coins #labrys is a reference to the Tenedian foundational myth, in which the hero Tenes used an axe to sever the mooring lines of his father's ship when he attempted to land on the island to reconcile with his son. In #Pausanias' version of the myth, he concludes "for this reason a by-word has arisen, which is used of those who make a stern refusal: so and so has cut whatever it may be with an axe of Tenedos" [#ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΑΣ 10.14.4].
Indeed, #Cicero, writing jokes to his brother Quintus about Tenedos' unsuccessful request to the Roman senate to be made a free city: "well then, the liberty of the Tenedians has been chopped by the Tenedian axe" [Letters to his brother Quintus, 2.9].
The early coinage of Tenedos bore janiform heads similar to the one here, but on those the male head was bare and without a laurel wreath. Those heads portrayed two characters from a local foundation legend: Tenes and his young step-mother and lover, Philonome.
However, even in ancient times the combination of the janiform, male/female head and the double axe on the reverse gave rise to tales of the punishment for adultery, and by the end of the 5th century the head on the coins of Tenedos was transformed into one of #Zeus and #Hera.
TR👇
🔗https://t.co/53cJOX4jHI](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYE_RhcXYAAazCj.jpg)
![AntikSikkeler's tweet photo. #Greek Islands off #Troas, #Tenedos #Bozcaada
#Tenedos was an island of strategic importance throughout antiquity due to its location at the entrance to the #Hellespont, which ensured every ship sailing to or from the #Propontis and the Black Sea would pass by. It is referenced in both #Homer's #Iliad and #Virgil's #Aeneid, in the latter as the place where the #Greek fleet was concealed towards the end of their siege of #Troy in order to trick the #Trojans into taking the fateful #Trojan horse within the walls of the city.
Seen on Tenedos coins #labrys is a reference to the Tenedian foundational myth, in which the hero Tenes used an axe to sever the mooring lines of his father's ship when he attempted to land on the island to reconcile with his son. In #Pausanias' version of the myth, he concludes "for this reason a by-word has arisen, which is used of those who make a stern refusal: so and so has cut whatever it may be with an axe of Tenedos" [#ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΑΣ 10.14.4].
Indeed, #Cicero, writing jokes to his brother Quintus about Tenedos' unsuccessful request to the Roman senate to be made a free city: "well then, the liberty of the Tenedians has been chopped by the Tenedian axe" [Letters to his brother Quintus, 2.9].
The early coinage of Tenedos bore janiform heads similar to the one here, but on those the male head was bare and without a laurel wreath. Those heads portrayed two characters from a local foundation legend: Tenes and his young step-mother and lover, Philonome.
However, even in ancient times the combination of the janiform, male/female head and the double axe on the reverse gave rise to tales of the punishment for adultery, and by the end of the 5th century the head on the coins of Tenedos was transformed into one of #Zeus and #Hera.
TR👇
🔗https://t.co/53cJOX4jHI](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYE_RhWXEAAxZCM.jpg)
![AntikSikkeler's tweet photo. #Greek Islands off #Troas, #Tenedos #Bozcaada
#Tenedos was an island of strategic importance throughout antiquity due to its location at the entrance to the #Hellespont, which ensured every ship sailing to or from the #Propontis and the Black Sea would pass by. It is referenced in both #Homer's #Iliad and #Virgil's #Aeneid, in the latter as the place where the #Greek fleet was concealed towards the end of their siege of #Troy in order to trick the #Trojans into taking the fateful #Trojan horse within the walls of the city.
Seen on Tenedos coins #labrys is a reference to the Tenedian foundational myth, in which the hero Tenes used an axe to sever the mooring lines of his father's ship when he attempted to land on the island to reconcile with his son. In #Pausanias' version of the myth, he concludes "for this reason a by-word has arisen, which is used of those who make a stern refusal: so and so has cut whatever it may be with an axe of Tenedos" [#ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΑΣ 10.14.4].
Indeed, #Cicero, writing jokes to his brother Quintus about Tenedos' unsuccessful request to the Roman senate to be made a free city: "well then, the liberty of the Tenedians has been chopped by the Tenedian axe" [Letters to his brother Quintus, 2.9].
The early coinage of Tenedos bore janiform heads similar to the one here, but on those the male head was bare and without a laurel wreath. Those heads portrayed two characters from a local foundation legend: Tenes and his young step-mother and lover, Philonome.
However, even in ancient times the combination of the janiform, male/female head and the double axe on the reverse gave rise to tales of the punishment for adultery, and by the end of the 5th century the head on the coins of Tenedos was transformed into one of #Zeus and #Hera.
TR👇
🔗https://t.co/53cJOX4jHI](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYE_RhVW0AAW_C5.jpg)
![AntikSikkeler's tweet photo. #Greek Islands off #Troas, #Tenedos #Bozcaada
#Tenedos was an island of strategic importance throughout antiquity due to its location at the entrance to the #Hellespont, which ensured every ship sailing to or from the #Propontis and the Black Sea would pass by. It is referenced in both #Homer's #Iliad and #Virgil's #Aeneid, in the latter as the place where the #Greek fleet was concealed towards the end of their siege of #Troy in order to trick the #Trojans into taking the fateful #Trojan horse within the walls of the city.
Seen on Tenedos coins #labrys is a reference to the Tenedian foundational myth, in which the hero Tenes used an axe to sever the mooring lines of his father's ship when he attempted to land on the island to reconcile with his son. In #Pausanias' version of the myth, he concludes "for this reason a by-word has arisen, which is used of those who make a stern refusal: so and so has cut whatever it may be with an axe of Tenedos" [#ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΑΣ 10.14.4].
Indeed, #Cicero, writing jokes to his brother Quintus about Tenedos' unsuccessful request to the Roman senate to be made a free city: "well then, the liberty of the Tenedians has been chopped by the Tenedian axe" [Letters to his brother Quintus, 2.9].
The early coinage of Tenedos bore janiform heads similar to the one here, but on those the male head was bare and without a laurel wreath. Those heads portrayed two characters from a local foundation legend: Tenes and his young step-mother and lover, Philonome.
However, even in ancient times the combination of the janiform, male/female head and the double axe on the reverse gave rise to tales of the punishment for adultery, and by the end of the 5th century the head on the coins of Tenedos was transformed into one of #Zeus and #Hera.
TR👇
🔗https://t.co/53cJOX4jHI](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYE_RhUXEAAsukK.jpg)
#Greek #Mysia #Parion #Parium
#Parion was a city of #Mysia [Hellespontine Phrygia], located along the coast of the #Hellespont, near the entrance to the #Propontis. It was founded in the 8th/7th century BC by colonists from #Miletos, #Erythrai, and #Paros.
The city began striking coinage in the late 6th century, consisting mainly of silver #drachms with a #gorgoneion on the obverse and a simple square incuse on the reverse. The gorgoneion remained a significant type on its civic coinage well into the early #Roman Imperial period.
Parion's location relative to the Hellespont not only made it an important commercial center, as suggested by its prolific civic coinage, but also a strategically important city for the competing Hellenistic monarchies.
Initially seized by the Macedonians under Alexander the Great, the city later switched hands multiple times between Lysimachos, Demetrios Poliorketes, the Seleukid kings from Seleukos I through Antiochos Hierax, and the Pergamene kingdom, who retained the city until it was annexed by #Rome, circa 133 BC. Coinage was issued during all of these periods, though most of the coins were issues of the various kingdoms.
![AntikSikkeler's tweet photo. #Greek #Mysia #Parion #Parium
#Parion was a city of #Mysia [Hellespontine Phrygia], located along the coast of the #Hellespont, near the entrance to the #Propontis. It was founded in the 8th/7th century BC by colonists from #Miletos, #Erythrai, and #Paros.
The city began striking coinage in the late 6th century, consisting mainly of silver #drachms with a #gorgoneion on the obverse and a simple square incuse on the reverse. The gorgoneion remained a significant type on its civic coinage well into the early #Roman Imperial period.
Parion's location relative to the Hellespont not only made it an important commercial center, as suggested by its prolific civic coinage, but also a strategically important city for the competing Hellenistic monarchies.
Initially seized by the Macedonians under Alexander the Great, the city later switched hands multiple times between Lysimachos, Demetrios Poliorketes, the Seleukid kings from Seleukos I through Antiochos Hierax, and the Pergamene kingdom, who retained the city until it was annexed by #Rome, circa 133 BC. Coinage was issued during all of these periods, though most of the coins were issues of the various kingdoms.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVCsXNNXAAAg6uP.jpg)
![AntikSikkeler's tweet photo. #Greek #Mysia #Parion #Parium
#Parion was a city of #Mysia [Hellespontine Phrygia], located along the coast of the #Hellespont, near the entrance to the #Propontis. It was founded in the 8th/7th century BC by colonists from #Miletos, #Erythrai, and #Paros.
The city began striking coinage in the late 6th century, consisting mainly of silver #drachms with a #gorgoneion on the obverse and a simple square incuse on the reverse. The gorgoneion remained a significant type on its civic coinage well into the early #Roman Imperial period.
Parion's location relative to the Hellespont not only made it an important commercial center, as suggested by its prolific civic coinage, but also a strategically important city for the competing Hellenistic monarchies.
Initially seized by the Macedonians under Alexander the Great, the city later switched hands multiple times between Lysimachos, Demetrios Poliorketes, the Seleukid kings from Seleukos I through Antiochos Hierax, and the Pergamene kingdom, who retained the city until it was annexed by #Rome, circa 133 BC. Coinage was issued during all of these periods, though most of the coins were issues of the various kingdoms.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVCsXNJXsAAqk-n.jpg)
![AntikSikkeler's tweet photo. #Greek #Mysia #Parion #Parium
#Parion was a city of #Mysia [Hellespontine Phrygia], located along the coast of the #Hellespont, near the entrance to the #Propontis. It was founded in the 8th/7th century BC by colonists from #Miletos, #Erythrai, and #Paros.
The city began striking coinage in the late 6th century, consisting mainly of silver #drachms with a #gorgoneion on the obverse and a simple square incuse on the reverse. The gorgoneion remained a significant type on its civic coinage well into the early #Roman Imperial period.
Parion's location relative to the Hellespont not only made it an important commercial center, as suggested by its prolific civic coinage, but also a strategically important city for the competing Hellenistic monarchies.
Initially seized by the Macedonians under Alexander the Great, the city later switched hands multiple times between Lysimachos, Demetrios Poliorketes, the Seleukid kings from Seleukos I through Antiochos Hierax, and the Pergamene kingdom, who retained the city until it was annexed by #Rome, circa 133 BC. Coinage was issued during all of these periods, though most of the coins were issues of the various kingdoms.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVCsXNJWcAAo1Px.jpg)
![AntikSikkeler's tweet photo. #Greek #Mysia #Parion #Parium
#Parion was a city of #Mysia [Hellespontine Phrygia], located along the coast of the #Hellespont, near the entrance to the #Propontis. It was founded in the 8th/7th century BC by colonists from #Miletos, #Erythrai, and #Paros.
The city began striking coinage in the late 6th century, consisting mainly of silver #drachms with a #gorgoneion on the obverse and a simple square incuse on the reverse. The gorgoneion remained a significant type on its civic coinage well into the early #Roman Imperial period.
Parion's location relative to the Hellespont not only made it an important commercial center, as suggested by its prolific civic coinage, but also a strategically important city for the competing Hellenistic monarchies.
Initially seized by the Macedonians under Alexander the Great, the city later switched hands multiple times between Lysimachos, Demetrios Poliorketes, the Seleukid kings from Seleukos I through Antiochos Hierax, and the Pergamene kingdom, who retained the city until it was annexed by #Rome, circa 133 BC. Coinage was issued during all of these periods, though most of the coins were issues of the various kingdoms.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVCsXNHXIAACHrn.jpg)
Huge good luck to everyone swimming the #Hellespont today with @SwimTrek! 🇹🇷 Still, one of the best things we've ever done - you'll always remember 'The World's Oldest Swim'. Here's a clip from our own crossing with SwimTrek back in 2018... 🏊
Today in 1810-inspired by the myth of Hero and Leander-George Gordon #LordByron, 22, swam across the #Hellespont, a Turkish strait dividing Europe from Asia. He recounted his aquatic adventure in the second canto of one of the most famous poems of the Romantic era, #DonJuan.
As #AnzacDay approaches, it's the evocative sites of #Gallipoli (Greek Kallipolis κάλλος+πόλις: beautiful city), #Troy, #Suvla Bay, the #Hellespont, sea of #Marmora & #Dardanelles on #etymology w/ Angela Catterns @abcaustralia: 📻3:29 https://t.co/ueY32aYTv9 @ABCaustralia @HASSUQ
Did You Know ? #Bozcaada TENEΔIΩN-TENEDION
#Greek #Islands off #Troas | #Tenedos [Τένεδος]
#Tenedos was an island of strategic importance throughout antiquity due to its location at the entrance to the #Hellespont, which ensured every ship sailing to or from the #Propontis and the Black Sea would pass by. It is referenced in both #Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid, in the latter as the place where the #Greek fleet was concealed towards the end of their siege of #Troy in order to trick the #Trojans into taking the fateful #Trojan horse within the walls of the city.
Indeed, #Cicero, writing less than half a century from the time of this coin's issue jokes to his brother Quintus about #Tenedos' unsuccessful request to the #Roman senate to be made a free city; well then, the liberty of the Tenedians has been chopped by the Tenedian #axe.
On the reverse of the ancient #coins that Tenedos mint this labrys is a reference to the #Tenedian foundational #myth, in which the hero Tenes used an #axe to sever the mooring lines of his father's ship when he attempted to land on the island to reconcile with his son.
The year-long journey to swim the #hellespont in August continues - successfully completing my first open water race - the #Noosa1000. Completing rather than competing, Robbie & I crossed the finish line together
The journey to attempt to swim the legendary #hellespont in Aug 2023 continues - I’ve been advised to abandon my reliable (and figure forgiving) old bordies for a new pair of DTs! But nothing matches the pair of togs I wore at sport carnivals when I was 7 - woollen with a belt 😀
@Persianwarrio20 The bridge built across the #Bosphores at #Hellespont by the Great King Xerxes engineers in 481 B.C. witnessed the crossing of about 7,000,000 warriors, in combined Persian forces.
#hellespont Anyone else up for emulating Lord Byron this year? C'mon, I'm 65 in June. Let's do it. What could possibly go wrong swimming from Europe to Asia ? I know Leander messed it up but he was on a nooky mission. https://t.co/EfHSmA6GS7
A geographer's true delight!!
Had an opportunity to visit #Dardanelles Strait also #Gallipoli Strait or #Hellespont in #Cannakale Province of Turkey which together with Bosphorus Strait separates Asia from Europe 🌍
Visited historical sites and soaked in rare winter sun.
Today in 1810-inspired by the myth of Hero & Leander-George Gordon Byron, 22, swam across the #Hellespont, the turbulent Turkish strait dividing Europe from Asia. #LordByron recounted his adventure in the second canto of one of the most famous poems of the Romantic era, #DonJuan.
@GreeceinUK Hi; 👏👏 having read #Mythos #Heroes you definitely deserve this. Just one question Bro; are you going to CELEBRATE #Byron style and swim the #Hellespont 😎😎
Panamax products tanker MT ‘Hellespont Protector’ sailing downstream in Lower Mississippi River under early spring sunset.
Distinctively white-painted hulls of historic #Hellespont Group of shipping companies, even been called “white elephants”
https://t.co/xz6DPhEkcT
#Apollo vs #Agamemnon: The Plague in Ancient #Greece was Divine Wrath
“Sminthian Apollo shooting arrows of plague against #Greeks to avenge his priest insulted by #Agamemnon. Silver didrachm. Apollo Sminthios from Sminthos, a city in the #Hellespont”
https://t.co/WbVudFdQei
Να βάλουμε τώρα στο τραπέζι των διαπραγματεύσεων την αποστρατικοίηση του Ελλησπόντου, Βοσπόρου, Σμύρνης και επίστροφή της Κωνσταντινούπολης σε διεθνής διοίκηση.
#Demilitarization #Hellespont #Bosporus #Constantinope #Smyrna #AsiaMinor
We are happy to share again the great news that TIB Vol. 13 on #Bithynia and #Hellespont is out and #openaccess #Byzanzforschung, @imafo_oeaw, @oeaw
Vol. 13 of the Tabula Imperii Byzantinii is out. It surveys the topography of Bithynia and Hellespont, where Helena may have been from. The author, Klaus Belke, let me read this in draft for which I'm deeply grateful. But everyone now can; it's open access https://t.co/HOdre5U0VT
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