Ancient Rhodian coinage refers to the coinage struck by an independent Rhodian polity during Classical and Hellenistic eras. The Rhodians also controlled...
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stater Rhodian coinage Coinage of Side Coinage of the Kingdom of Pontus Seleucid coinage Otto Mørkholm (31 May 1991). Early Hellenistic Coinage from the...
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Rhodian settlers. It was originally known as Lindii after their home town Lindos, but the city was renamed after the river Gelas. They struck coinage...
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their silver coinage. These standards differed in the weight of the main monetary unit and also in the denominational structure of the coinage. Modern numismatists...
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The coinage of the Seleucid Empire is based on the coins of Alexander the Great, which in turn were based on Athenian coinage of the Attic weight. Many...
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its use in the coinage of the Athenian empire and the empire of Alexander the Great, it was the dominant weight standard for coinage issued in the Eastern...
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Byzantine law (redirect from Rhodian Sea Law)
the researchers attributed the juridical collections "Farmer's Law", "Rhodian Sea Law" and "Military Laws" to Leo III the Isaurian. The structure of...
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Lycia was removed from Rhodian control. According to Livy, the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus put Lycia under Rhodian control in 190 BC. He wrote...
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Memnon of Rhodes (category Ancient Rhodian generals)
Memnon of Rhodes (Greek: Μέμνων ὁ Ῥόδιος; c. 380 – 333 BC) was a prominent Rhodian Greek commander in the service of the Achaemenid Empire. Related to the...
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his fellow citizens had become jealous of his prestige and power. The Rhodian poet Timocreon was among his most eloquent enemies, composing slanderous...
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Knights Hospitaller were chased out Rhodes and granted possession of Malta. Rhodian Greeks followed them there, numbering in the hundreds or as many as 3,000...
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Timocrates of Rhodes (category 4th-century BC Rhodians)
Timocrates of Rhodes (Greek: Τιμοκράτης ὁ Ῥόδιος) was a Rhodian Greek sent by the Persian satrap Pharnabazus in 396 or 395 BC to distribute money to Greek...
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Kaunos under the jurisdiction of Rhodes. At that time it was known as the Rhodian Peraia. In 167 BC this led to a revolt by Kaunos and a number of other...
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of Stratonicea. Like Stratonicea proper, Panamara may have come under Rhodian control in the later 3rd century BCE. It was occupied by Philip V, King...
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away as it was absorbed into mainstream Greek culture. Their coinage switched to the Rhodian standard (tetradrachms weighing 15.3 g) and ceased bearing...
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Ai-Khanoum (section Coinage)
those of the south colonnade were almost 10 metres (33 ft) tall, forming a Rhodian peristyle. The palace was entered through a hypostyle behind the southern...
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were highly sought after, including Tarantine cavalry, Cretan archers, Rhodian slingers and Thracian peltasts. This period also saw the adoption of new...
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Kingdom of Pontus (section Coinage)
suffered a series of reversals. He took Sinope in 182 BC and although the Rhodians complained to Rome about this, nothing was done. Pharnaces also took the...
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Corinthian and Corcyraean transport containers, as well as of fragments of Rhodian amphorae. They date from the end of the 5th century BCE to the 4th–3rd...
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broken pottery and is followed by a hiatus in human occupation. Achaean and Rhodian colonists reestablished a permanent human presence at Soli between 700...
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that of the Macedonian ruler. Another misattribution involved identifying Rhodian silver didrachms as the thirty pieces of silver given to Judas Iscariot...
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until c. 351/0 BCE. During her short reign, she suppressed a revolt by the Rhodians, personally leading a fleet to the island and installing a statue of herself...
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Hellenistic art (section Coinage)
mentioned by ancient writers. It is attributed by Pliny the Elder to the Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus. Johann Joachim Winckelmann...
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his rule. Adding to his challenges was Lucullus' fleet, reinforced by Rhodian allies. When Flaccus' consular army marched through Macedonia towards Thrace...
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provide to the population of Rhodes Toja wood and Ivory, in Cirta multiple Rhodian amphorae from the 2nd century B.C were found in burial sites and one of...
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influence of Rhodes, until in 200 BC, the island was incorporated into the Rhodian confederacy. The island was conquered by the Romans in 42 BC. Archaeological...
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groups of foreigners that ever lived there. Diodorus Siculus claimed that Rhodian Actis, one of the Heliadae, built the city of Heliopolis before the cataclysm;...
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the naval Battle of Chios in 201 BC and was blockaded at Bargylia by the Rhodian and Pergamene navies. While Philip V was busy fighting Rome's Greek allies...
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sculpture Pukka Up boat party Ushuaïa Ibiza Ibiza Rocks day club "The Rhodians, like the Baleares, were celebrated slingers." (Latin: Iam cui Tlepolemus...
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Chief among the blockade runners was a galley captained by Hannibal the Rhodian, who taunted the Romans with the superiority of his vessel and crew. Eventually...
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