Marcus Antonius, Signed (1 results)

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp.6-20, 1 map, 1 plate. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication by the author. - Author's name underlined on the cover, otherwise very good and clean. - From the text: From the reign of Tiberius until that of Galba, covering the period c. a.d. 28 to a.d. 68, a priest-dynast-king named Marcus Antonius Polemo ruled a portion of Cilicia Tracheia, centred on Olba. During much of the same period, King Polemo II of Pontus also ruled in Cilicia Tracheia; from several indications he ruled near that same area. The study following contends that we do less violence to the evidence in supposing that the two Polemos were the same man than in supposing that two different kings of the same name ruled virtually side-by-side without exciting comment from the classical sources. The largest difficulty with this view is that the King Polemo who issued a number of coins from the area of Olba used the gentilicium Antonius for himself, whereas in one rescript the Emperor Claudius, referring to the activity of Polemo II of Pontus in Cilicia Tracheia, supplies for him the gentilicium Julius. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.