Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Ideology of Gelon’s Innovative Syracusan Tetradrachm

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  • Virginia M. Lewis Florida State University

Abstract

The coin’s iconography – river god Alpheos/two barley grains – revises earlier Syracusan types so as to signal the new tyrant’s Olympic victory, his patronage of Demeter and Persephone, and his claim to power in Sicily.

Author Biography

Virginia M. Lewis, Florida State University

Assistant Professor, Department of Classics

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2019-05-27

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