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Athena and her owl In Greek mythology, a Little Owl baby (Athene noctua) traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in Roman mythology. Because of such association, the bird often referred to as the "owl of Athena" or the "owl of Minerva" has been used as a symbol of knowledge, wisdom, perspicacity and erudition throughout the Western world.
The reasons behind the association of Athena and the owl are lost in time. Some mythographers, such as David Kinsley and Martin P. Nilsson suggest that she may descend from a Minoan palace goddess associated with birds and Marija Gimbutas claim to trace Athena's origins as an Old European bird and snake goddess.
On the other hand, Cynthia Berger theorizes about the appeal of some characteristics of owls such as their ability to see in the dark to be used as symbol of wisdom while others, such as William Geoffrey Arnott, propose a simple association between founding myths of Athens and the significant number of Little Owls in the region (a fact noted since antiquity by Aristophanes in The Birds and Lysistrata).
In any case, the city of Athens seems to have adopted the owl as proof of allegiance to its patron virgin goddess, which according to a popular etiological myth reproduced on the West pediment of the Parthenon, secured the favor of its citizens by providing them with a more enticing gift than Poséidon.
Owls were commonly reproduced by Athenians in vases, weights and prize amphoras for the Panathenaic Games. The owl of Athena even became the common obverse of the Athenian tetradrachms after 510 BC and according to Philochorus, the Athenian tetradrachm was known as glaux throughout the ancient world and "owl" in present day numismatics. They were not, however, used exclusively by them to represent Athena and were even used for motivation during battles by other Greek cities, such as in the victory of Agathocles of Syracuse over the Carthaginians in 310 B.C. in which owls flying through the ranks were interpreted as Athena’s blessing or in the Battle of Salamis, chronicled in Plutarch's biography of Themistocles.
(Source: Wikipédia)
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AtheneLa fortune d'Athènes au Ve siècle repose en grande partie sur la récupération du trésor de la Ligue de Délos qui ne contenait pas moins de cinq mille talents d'argent et qui servit à enrichir et embellir Athènes en opprimant les Alliés. La guerre du Péloponnèse (431-404 avant J.-C.) mit fin à l'hégémonie athénienne. Périclès (449-429 avant J.-C.) ne vécut pas assez longtemps pour assister à la chute de la cité. Thucydide a immortalisé ce conflit dans son ouvrage consacré à la guerre du Péloponnèse dont il fut l'un des acteurs avant d'être lui-même ostracisé, c'est-à-dire exiléB*Numis
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Athens - AE 12 (224-198 BC)Head of helmeted Athena right
A Θ E , owl standing right, head facing, in wreathGinolerhino
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Athens - tetradrachmAttique, Athènes 483-480 BC Tétradrachme 16,6g
A:/ Tête d'Athéna à dr. coiffée d'un casque attique à cimier, les cheveux rangés en petites nattes autour du front.
R:/ (A)θE Chouette debout à droite, la tête de face , à g. une pousse d'Olivier.
Seltman Groupe E, Svoronos pl.3, 25-39Brennos
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Athens - tetradrachmAttique, Athènes 490-482 BC Tétradrachme 17.08g
A:/ Tête d'Athéna à dr. coiffée d'un casque attique à cimier, les cheveux rangés en petites vagues autour du front tombant sur la tempe en natte.
R:/ AθE Chouette debout à droite, la tête de face , à g. une pousse d'Olivier.
Seltman Groupe M, Svoronos pl.5 34Brennos
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Athens - tetradrachmAttique, Athènes 505-490 BC Tétradrachme 16.77g
A:/ Tête d'Athéna à dr. coiffée d'un casque attique à cimier, les cheveux rangés en petites nattes.
R:/ AθE Chouette debout à droite, la tête de face , à g. une pousse d'Olivier.
Seltman Groupe L n°330 (A214/P275), Svoronos pl.6 11Brennos
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Athens - tetradrachm (IVth C. BC)Obv.: head of Athena right weraing helmet and wreath. Phoenician countermark on her cheek.
Rev.: AΘE , owl right.Ginolerhino
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Athens - tetradrachm (Vth - IVth C. BC)Obv.: head of Athena right, wearing helmet and wreath.
Rev.: AΘE , owl right.Ginolerhino
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Athens, Attica454-431 BC
AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.95g)
O: Head of Athena with archaic eye right, wearing Attic helmet decorated with palmette and olive leaves.
R: Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and cresent moon above, AΘE to right, all within incuse square.
SNG Cop 31; Kroll 8; Sear 2526
ex Steven Battelle
With her almond eye and Mona Lisa-like grin, along with her companion owl (Athene Noctua), these classic 5th century tetradrachms from Athens are truly THE iconic ancient coin.Enodia
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Caracalla Touria, greece*** AE 20 mm 3.8 grams 198-211 AD
OBV :: AVTO MAR ANTONINO. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REV :: (Θ)OVI PI-ATU(Upsidedown U ) N. Athene standing, facing , head turned right. Holding nike in right hand, spear in left hand
(Λ) in left field, A in right field
Minted in Thuria on the Pelononnesus peninsula in Greece
the following is an exerpt from http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/peloponnesus.html#Thuria
Imperial—Severus to Geta. Inscr., ΘΟΥΡΙΑΤΩΝ. Types—Zeus, Athena, Asklepios, &c., all with letters ΛΑ in the field, indicating that Thuria, although geographically situated in Messenia, belonged at this time politically to Laconia (cf. Paus. iv. 31. 1).
This coin, as it stands, is unlisted in RIC, Wildwinds, coinarchives, coincatalog , and roman coins and their values , BMC, and the ANS database online,
link to forum discussion on this coin
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=43876.0Johnny
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Gordien, Pergaia, Victoria Ae27AY KAI MAP ANT ΓOPΔIANOC CE
laurate, draped and cuirassed bust right seen from behind over a globe
ΠEP | ΓAI | ΩN
Victory, standing left, on a globe, holding a crown with his right hand. and a palm of the hand g. ; wings spread in the back.
26.5mm, 7.10g
pédigrée Naville Numismatics 53 lot 207 = collection E.E. Clain-Stefanelli
7 exemplaires known (Athene, Londres, Cambridge, Mihalka, V. Aulock, Naville 34 and this one)leseullunique
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Greece-Thessaly-Thessalian League 196-146 BCThessaly, Thessalian League 196-146 BC
Obverse: Head of Pallas Athene right
Reverse: Horse trotting right,Macedonian Warrior
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greek - Thessaly, Thessalian League AE16 - 196-146 BCobv:Head of Pallas Athene right
rev: Horse trotting right, above ΘΕΣΣΑ
ref: BMC 2, SG 2235
3.36g, 16mmberserker
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Greek, Athens, Attica, Tetradrachm - Tétradrachme, Chouette, Athènes, 454-415 avant J.-C (Argent)
Avers : Tête d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque attique à cimier, orné de trois feuilles d'olivier et d'une palmette avec collier et boucles d'oreilles.
Revers : Chouette debout à droite, la tête de face ; derrière, une branche d'olivier et un croissant ; le tout dans les restes d'un carré creux.
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Indo-Parthians, Gondophares, 1st half of 1st cent. ADAE dr., 2,2gr., 11,2mm;
Mitch., vol. VIII, p. 764;
mint: Jammu,
obv.: bare-headed bust, right, w/ diadem and 2 ribbons; beard; large, straight nose; behind neck 2 dots; traces of legend around rim;
rev.: Pallas Athene standing right (barely recognizable), traces of legend on rim.
Schatz
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Indo-Parthians, Gondophares, ca. 1st half of 1st cent. ADAE dr., 2,32gr, 12,58mm;
Mitch ACW 2636;
mint: Jammu, axis: 12h;
obv.: bare-headed, right, w/diadem, bow, and ribbons; hair only above diadem, mustache, short beard; necklace (?); Greek lettering around rim: BΛCIΛEΩC ...;
rev.: Pallas Athene, standing right, w/thunderbolt and shield; 2 control marks in lower right and left field; Karoshti legend around rim.
Schatz
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Kallatis, ThraceKallatis, Thrace (3rd-2nd Century BCE)
Helmeted bust of Athene/Round shield, with a central boss and radiating spokes, flanked by a club and quiver.
AMNG 1 269vBelisarius
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L. Censorinus, Crawford 363/1dL. Censorinus, gens Marcia
AR - Denar, 3.68g, 24.17mm
Rome 82 BC
obv. (no legend)
bust of Apollo, laureate, r.
rev. L. CENSOR l.
Marsyas walking l., gazing upwards, raising r. Hand, with wineskin above
shoulder; tall column behind, surmounted by a draped figure (Minerva?)
Crawf. 363/1d; Syd. 737; Kestner 3155; BMCR Rome 2657; Marcia 24
gVF/nEF
Allusion to the myth of Marsyas. When he found the flute, Athene had invented but thrown away, he challenged Apollo for a contest. Apollo won with his cythara and skinned him alive.
Jochen
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MarsyasL. Censorinus, gens Marcia
AR - Denar, 3.68g, 24.17mm
Rome 82 BC
obv. (no legend)
bust of Apollo, laureate, r.
rev. L. CENSOR
Marsyas walking l., gazing upwards, raising r. Hand, with wineskin above
shoulder; tall column behind, surmounted by a draped figure (Minerva?)
Crawf. 363/1d; Syd. 737; Marcia 24
gVF/nEF
Marsyas was a Silen who found the flute which Athene had invented some times before. But when Athene saw in a mirror how awful her face was looking when playing the flute, she throw it away with a curse. Marsyas then learned to play the flute better as everyone else so that he challenged Apollo to a contest. The Muses should be the arbiters. But in this contest Apollo outsmarts Marsyas by singing to the cithara what Marsyas was not able to do with his flute. So he lost the contest and Apollo hung him up in a tree and let him skinned by a Skyth alive. His blood or the tears of the Muses then became the river Marsyas.
(Ovid, Metamorphoses, lib.VI, 382-400)Jochen
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Menander I SoterMenander I Soter, Indo-Greek Kingdom
c.2nd Century BCE
Diademed bust of King, right. Corrupt Greek legend: King Menander, the Saviour. Slight die flaw to top left./Athene Alkidemos left, holding Aegis and thunderbolt. Kharosthi script legend: Maharajasa Tratarasa Menamdrasa. IiI Monogram in field.
AR Drachm. RJ Herbert 87.0935.23 or BN Ménandre Série 13HBelisarius
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MYSIE - LAMPSAQUE Trihemiobole4th-3rd centuries BC. AR Diobol ( 1,20 g. - 11 mm)
MYSIE - LAMPSAQUE
(Ve - IVe siècle avant J.-C.)
Lampsaque, placée à l'entrée de l'Hellespont, était une colonie phocéenne. Enjeu permanent de la rivalité qui opposait les Grecs et les Perses, Lampsaque entra dans la confédération délienne après la bataille de Mycale en 479 avant J.-C. Elle se détacha de la tutelle athénienne en 412 avant J.-C., mais fut reprise. Entre la chute d'Athènes en 404 avant J.-C. et la bataille de Cnide en 394 avant J.-C., puis la paix d'Antalcidas en 387 avant J.-C., la cité changea souvent de camp passant de l'influence grecque à celle du grand Roi et de ses satrapes. En 334, à l'arrivée d'Alexandre le Grand, la cité fut épargnée bien que favorable à Darius III Codoman avec Memnon, despote de la cité. La ville connut une grande prospérité à l'époque hellénistique.B*Numis
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Owl of AthenaThe little owl (Athene noctua) and Athenian owl tetradrachm (reverse).
The little owl (Athene noctua), also known as the owl of Athena or owl of Minerva, is a bird that inhabits much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, the Palearctic east to Korea, and North Africa. It was introduced into Britain at the end of the 19th century and into the South Island of New Zealand in the early 20th century.Serendipity
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ROMAN EMPIRE PROVINCIAL, Gallienus, AlexandriaBI tetradrachm
29 Aug 267 - 28 Aug 268
laureate, cuirassed bust right, draped shoulder
AVT K ΠΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEB
Athene seated on cuirass left, wearing helmet, holding scepter and Nike with wreath and palmbranch
IE / L
Geißen: 2946, Dattari: 5232J. B.
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Seleucid Syria150BC-145BC
Die axis 0 degrees
AE20
Athene reversePaul D3
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Spain, Santiponce, Italica.Detail of the floor of the house of Birds. Athene noctua - the typical Minerva owl. May, 2002.jmuona
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Taras, Calabria272-240/35 BC
AR Obol (8mm, 0.42g)
O: Kantharos; 3 pellets around.
R: Kantharos; 2 pellets, owl with folded wings in field to right.
D'Andrea XLIV, 1542; Vlasto 1660; SNG France 2216; HN Italy 1076
ex London Ancient Coins
Another Dionysian obol, this one featuring a small owl, Athene Noctua, as a tribute to Athena.
Enodia
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Thessaly, PharsalosThessaly, Pharsalos
Hemidrachm, ca. 380 BC
Obv.: Head of Athena right
Rev.: Horse’s head to right, Φ-A-P-Σ
Ag, 2.81g, 16.6x14.7mm
Ref.: SNG Copenhagen 223
Ex CNGshanxi
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YHD Persian Rule, AR obol, c. 400–333 BCESilver obol of 6mm, 0.52 gm, c. 400–333 BCE
Obverse: Crowned head of Athene
Reverse: Owl, lily on left, “YHD” (יהד , in paleo Hebrew )
Reference: Meshorer 4 (Group I), Herbst 1061, Hendin 426.
Added to collection: May 19, 2005Daniel F
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