GETA Marcianopolis in Moesia Inferior Rare Ancient Roman Coin Asclepius i48511

Description

Item:
i48511
Authentic Ancient Coin of:
Geta
- Roman Caesar: 198-209 A.D. -
Roman Emperor
: 209-211 A.D. -
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Bronze 18mm (2.50 grams) of
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Π CЄΠT ΓЄΤΑC,
Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN,
Asclepius standing facing, with serpent-entwined (medical symbol) staff.
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Asclepius
is the god of
medicine
and healing in ancient
Greek religion
. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are
Hygieia
("Health"),
Iaso
("Medicine"),
Aceso
("Healing"),
Aglæa/Ægle
("Healthy Glow"), and
Panacea
("Universal Remedy"). The
rod of Asclepius
, a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today, although sometimes the
caduceus
, or staff with two snakes, is mistakenly used instead. He was associated with the Roman/Etruscan god
Vediovis
. He was one of
Apollo
's servants.
The
rod of Asclepius
, also known as the
asklepian
, is an ancient symbol associated with
astrology
, the
Greek
god
Asclepius
and with
medicine
and
healing
. It consists of a
serpent
entwined around a
staff
. The name of the symbol derives from its early and widespread association with
Asclepius
, the son of
Apollo
, who was a practitioner of medicine in ancient
Greek mythology
. His attributes, the snake and the staff, sometimes depicted separately in antiquity, are combined in this symbol. The Rod of Asclepius also represents the constellation
Ophiuchus
(or Ophiuchus Serpentarius), the thirteenth sign of the
sidereal zodiac
.
Hippocrates
himself was a worshipper of Asclepius.
Serpents and snakes play a role in many of the world's myths and legends. Sometimes these mythic beasts appear as ordinary snakes. At other times, they take on magical or monstrous forms. Serpents and snakes have long been associated with good as well as with evil, representing both life and death, creation and destruction.
Serpents and Snakes as Symbols.
In religion, mythology, and literature, serpents and snakes often stand for fertility or a creative life force—partly because the creatures can be seen as symbols of the male sex organ. They have also been associated with water and earth because many kinds of snakes live in the water or in holes in the ground. The ancient Chinese connected serpents with life-giving rain. Traditional beliefs in Australia, India, North America, and Africa have linked snakes with rainbows, which in turn are often related to rain and fertility.
As snakes grow, many of them shed their skin at various times, revealing a shiny new skin underneath. For this reason snakes have become symbols of rebirth, transformation,
immortality,
and healing. The ancient Greeks considered snakes sacred to Asclepius, the god of medicine. He carried a caduceus, a staff with one or two serpents wrapped around it, which has become the symbol of modern physicians.
For both the Greeks and the Egyptians, the snake represented eternity. Ouroboros, the Greek symbol of eternity, consisted of a snake curled into a circle or hoop, biting its own tail. The Ouroboros grew out of the belief that serpents eat themselves and are reborn from themselves in an endless cycle of destruction and creation.
Serpents figured prominently in archaic Greek myths. According to some sources,
Ophion
("serpent", a.k.a. Ophioneus), ruled the world with Eurynome before the two of them were cast down by Cronus and Rhea. The oracles of the Ancient Greeks were said to have been the continuation of the tradition begun with the worship of the Egyptian cobra goddess,
Wadjet
.
The
Minoan
Snake Goddess
brandished a serpent in either hand, perhaps evoking her role as source of wisdom, rather than her role as Mistress of the Animals (
Potnia theron
), with a
leopard
under each arm. She is a Minoan version of the
Canaanite
fertility goddess
Asherah
. It is not by accident that later the infant
Heracles
, a liminal hero on the threshold between the old ways and the new Olympian world, also brandished the two serpents that "threatened" him in his cradle. Classical Greeks did not perceive that the threat was merely the threat of wisdom. But the gesture is the same as that of the Cretan goddess.
Typhon
the enemy of the Olympian gods is described as a vast grisly monster with a hundred heads and a hundred serpents issuing from his thighs, who was conquered and cast into
Tartarus
by
Zeus
, or confined beneath volcanic regions, where he is the cause of eruptions. Typhon is thus the chthonic figuration of volcanic forces. Amongst his children by Echidna are
Cerberus
(a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail and a serpentine mane), the serpent tailed
Chimaera
, the serpent-like chthonic water beast
Lernaean Hydra
and the hundred-headed serpentine dragon
Ladon
. Both the Lernaean Hydra and Ladon were slain by
Heracles
.
Python
was the earth-dragon of
Delphi
, she always was represented in the vase-paintings and by sculptors as a serpent. Pytho was the chthonic enemy of
Apollo
, who slew her and remade her former home his own oracle, the most famous in Classical Greece.
Amphisbaena
a Greek word, from amphis, meaning "both ways", and bainein, meaning "to go", also called the "Mother of Ants", is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end. According to Greek mythology, the mythological amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from
Medusa
the
Gorgon
's head as
Perseus
flew over the Libyan Desert with her head in his hand.
Medusa and the other Gorgons were vicious female monsters with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes whose origins predate the written myths of Greece and who were the protectors of the most ancient ritual secrets. The Gorgons wore a belt of two intertwined serpents in the same configuration of the
caduceus
. The Gorgon was placed at the highest point and central of the relief on the
Parthenon
.
Asclepius
, the son of Apollo and Koronis, learned the secrets of keeping death at bay after observing one serpent bringing another (which Asclepius himself had fatally wounded) healing herbs. To prevent the entire human race from becoming immortal under Asclepius's care, Zeus killed him with a bolt of lightning. Asclepius' death at the hands of Zeus illustrates man's inability to challenge the natural order that separates mortal men from the gods. In honor of Asclepius, snakes were often used in healing rituals. Non-poisonous snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept. In
The Library
,
Apollodorus
claimed that
Athena
gave Asclepius a vial of blood from the Gorgons. Gorgon blood had magical properties: if taken from the left side of the Gorgon, it was a fatal poison; from the right side, the blood was capable of bringing the dead back to life. However
Euripides
wrote in his tragedy
Ion
that the Athenian queen Creusa had inherited this vial from her ancestor Erichthonios, who was a snake himself and receiving the vial from Athena. In this version the blood of Medusa had the healing power while the lethal poison originated from Medusa's serpents.
Laocoön
was allegedly a priest of
Poseidon
(or of Apollo, by some accounts) at
Troy
; he was famous for warning the Trojans in vain against accepting the Trojan Horse from the Greeks, and for his subsequent divine execution. Poseidon (some say
Athena
), who was supporting the Greeks, subsequently sent sea-serpents to strangle Laocoön and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus. Another tradition states that Apollo sent the serpents for an unrelated offense, and only unlucky timing caused the Trojans to misinterpret them as punishment for striking the Horse.
Olympias
, the mother of
Alexander the Great
and a princess of the primitive land of
Epirus
, had the reputation of a snake-handler, and it was in serpent form that Zeus was said to have fathered Alexander upon her; tame snakes were still to be found at Macedonian
Pella
in the 2nd century AD (
Lucian
,
Alexander the false prophet
) and at
Ostia
a bas-relief shows paired coiled serpents flanking a dressed altar, symbols or embodiments of the
Lares
of the household, worthy of veneration (Veyne 1987 illus p 211).
Aeetes
, the king of
Colchis
and father of the sorceress
Medea
, possessed the
Golden Fleece
. He guarded it with a massive serpent that never slept. Medea, who had fallen in love with
Jason
of the
Argonauts
, enchanted it to sleep so Jason could seize the Fleece.
Publius Septimius Geta
(
March 7
,
189
–
December 26
,
211
), was a
Roman Emperor
co-ruling with his father
Septimius Severus
and his older brother
Caracalla
from 209 to his death.
Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife
Julia Domna
. Geta was born in
Rome
, at a time when his father was only a provincial governor at the service of emperor
Commodus
.
Geta was always in a place secondary to his older brother Lucius, the heir known as Caracalla. Perhaps due to this, the relations between the two were difficult from their early years. Conflicts were constant and often required the mediation of their mother. To appease his youngest son, Septimius Severus gave Geta the title of
Augustus
in 209. During the campaign against the Britons of the early 3rd century, the imperial propaganda publicized a happy family that shared the responsibilities of rule. Caracalla was his father's second in command, Julia Domna the trusted counsellor and Geta had administrative and bureaucratic duties. Truth was that the rivalry and antipathy between the brothers was far from being improved.
Joint Emperor
When Septimius Severus died in
Eboracum
in the beginning of 211, Caracalla and Geta were proclaimed joint emperors and returned to Rome.
Regardless, the shared throne was not a success: the brothers argued about every decision, from law to political appointments. Later sources speculate about the desire of the two of splitting the empire in two halves. By the end of the year, the situation was unbearable. Caracalla tried to murder Geta during the festival of
Saturnalia
without success. Later in December he arranged a meeting with his brother in his mother's apartments, and had him murdered in her arms by
centurions
.
Following Geta's assassination, Caracalla
damned his memoryy
and ordered his name to be removed from all inscriptions. The now sole emperor also took the opportunity to get rid of his political enemies, on the grounds of conspiracy with the deceased.
Cassius Dio
stated that around 20,000 persons of both sexes were killed and/or proscribed during this time.
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