How cool is Aethelred !?!? Thanks again for my first ancient

Hyperion

My first bit of ancient history. I can't begin to imagine the hands this has passed through, or this coins personal history




Very cool color in-hand !!! Thanks again

Anyone hazard a guess as to why this was particularly appropriate to send to me ? Should be easy...

Hyperion

Click the link, but only if youre desperate for a hint....

1jester

How cool is Aethelred? Well, he's pretty cool for a walking skeleton! He ranks right up there with Bingo Greentoe in coolness factor.

TwoKopeiki

He's a stand-up guy! I received the set of Britannias today that I purchased from him and am very thrilled about these coins

As far as your question about the coin ... hmm ... not sure. Perhaps since Apollo was identified with Helios, and Helios' full name was Helios Hyperion?

Just a guess...

ajaan

aethelred is OK but he smells . . .




















but who wouldn't after being dead that long.

Hyperion

<< <i>He's a stand-up guy! I received the set of Britannias today that I purchased from him and am very thrilled about these coins

As far as your question about the coin ... hmm ... not sure. Perhaps since Apollo was identified with Helios, and Helios' full name was Helios Hyperion?

Just a guess... >>



DING DING DING we have a winner!!!

Wikipedia:

The Titans are a pantheon of gods who ruled previously to the Olympians, and are now destined to fall. They include Saturn (king of the gods), Ops (his wife), Thea (his sister), Enceladus (god of war), Oceanus (god of the sea), Hyperion (the god of the sun) and Clymene (a young goddess). The poem opens with Saturn bemoaning the loss of his power, which is being overtaken by Jupiter. Thea leads him to a place where the other Titans sit, similarly miserable, and they discuss whether they should fight back against their conquest by the new gods (the Olympians). Oceanus declares that he is willing to surrender his power to Neptune (the new god of the sea) because Neptune is more beautiful (this is worth bearing in mind in relation to the Romantic idea that beauty is paramount). Clymene describes first hearing the music of Apollo, which she found beautiful to the point of pain (another Romantic idea). Finally, Enceladus makes a speech encouraging the Titans to fight. Meanwhile Hyperion's palace is described, and we first see Hyperion himself, the only Titan who is still powerful. He is addressed by Uranus (old god of the sky, father of Saturn), who encourages him to go to where Saturn and the other Titans are. We leave the Titans with the arrival of Hyperion, and the scene changes to Apollo (the new sun god, also god of music, civilisation and culture) weeping on the beach. Here Mnemosyne (goddess of memory) encounters him and he explains to her the cause of his tears: he is aware of his divine potential, but as yet unable to fulfil it. By looking into Mnemosyne's eyes he receives knowledge which transforms him fully into a god. The poem breaks off at this point, in mid-line.

From Book I, lines spoken by the Titan Hyperion:

"Saturn is fallen, am I too to fall?
Am I to leave this haven of my rest,
This cradle of my glory, this soft clime,
This calm luxuriance of blissful light,
These crystalline pavilions, and pure fanes,
Of all my lucent empire? It is left
Deserted, void, nor any haunt of mine.
The blaze, the splendor, and the symmetry,
I cannot see – but darkness, death and darkness.
Even here, into my centre of repose,
The shady visions come to domineer,
Insult, and blind, and stifle up my pomp. –
Fall! – No, by Tellus and her briny robes!
Over the fiery frontier of my realms
I will advance a terrible right arm
Shall scare that infant thunderer, rebel Jove,
And bid old Saturn take his throne again."




Sorry, no giveaway til 5k posts

Aethelred

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That is a clear insult! I am just not sure if it is Ajaan or I who should be insulted.

Glad you like the coin Hyperion! There really is something about ancient and medieval coins, something about the direct connection to such a long ago age, that is very cool.