Wordless Wednesday - Which Is Alexander?
Wednesday July 15, 2009
One of these coins shows Alexander the Great. Can you guess which one? Can you guess who the other one is? If you click on the photos, you'll find the answers. If you want a hint, keep reading. In Adrienne Mayor's forthcoming book, Poison King, she says the resemblance was cultivated.
Photo Credits:
The left: PD granted by owner PHGCOM.
The right: CC Flickr User brewbooks
Comments
I got it right…your book title was a hint! Cool WW.
I got Alexander correct, mostly based on an educated guess of the relative ages and preservation of the coins. But I confess, I’d completely forget how studiously Mithridates cultivated an Alexandrian mythos about him. Nice stuff!~
How fascinating! I’d not heard about Mithridates before… Very interesting reading.
Mayor’s book, due out later this year, is filled with fascinating details, since Adrienne Mayor is a folklorist.
I’m guessing the bronze to be Alexander because it looks older and it would have been like him to have a coin stuck in his image. Now to see if I guessed correctly.
I think that’s more a fluke than the fact that one may be a hundred or so years younger, since we’re talking about 2000+ years, but it’s as good a way of figuring it out as any and it works.
Too easy. The wrong one must be you, your highness – you would post nothing other, would you? And the er – cranial characteristics? – give away Alexandro ton Mega.
BTW – recently back from Greece. They taking better care of what is rightfully yours, your majesty. The Olympics have much improved the place.