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Auction 123 23-24 May 2023
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CILICIA, Pompeiopolis. Time of Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ (18mm, 4.27 g, 12h). Dated CY 229 (AD 163/4). APA TOC, draped bust of Aratos right / ΠOMΠHIOΠOΛITΩN, Nike standing left on globe, holding wreath and palm; AΓ ΓT (date) across field. RPC IV –; SNG BN –; P. R. Franke, "Chrysippos und Aratos aus Soloi" in JNG 61, p. 19, no. 12 (this coin). Brown patina, roughness. Good Fine. Extremely Rare.
Ex Heidelberger Münzhandlung 64 (20 November 2014), lot 1291.
Born at Soli (Pompeiopolis) and a contemporary of the Helleistic poets Callimachus and Theocritus, Aratus was a disciple of the Peripatetic philosopher Praxiphanes. He was acquainted with several important scholars, including the Stoic philosopher Zeno, as well as Callimachus, and Menedemus, the founder of the Eretrian School of philosophy. In 276 BC, he was invited to the court of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas to compose a poem on that king's victory over the Gauls the previous year. His most famous poem and major extant work, Phaenomena ("Appearances"), describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena, as well as weather lore. Aratus subsequently spent time at the court of Antiochus I Soter of Syria, but later returned to Pella in Macedon, where he died about 240 BC.
Ex Heidelberger Münzhandlung 64 (20 November 2014), lot 1291.
Born at Soli (Pompeiopolis) and a contemporary of the Helleistic poets Callimachus and Theocritus, Aratus was a disciple of the Peripatetic philosopher Praxiphanes. He was acquainted with several important scholars, including the Stoic philosopher Zeno, as well as Callimachus, and Menedemus, the founder of the Eretrian School of philosophy. In 276 BC, he was invited to the court of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas to compose a poem on that king's victory over the Gauls the previous year. His most famous poem and major extant work, Phaenomena ("Appearances"), describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena, as well as weather lore. Aratus subsequently spent time at the court of Antiochus I Soter of Syria, but later returned to Pella in Macedon, where he died about 240 BC.