CAESAR and AENEAS




Obverse:
coin:  head of Aphrodite (Venus)

Aphrodite (Venus)
ancestor of the Caesars


Reverse:
coin: Aeneas carrying Anchises and Palladium

Denarius of Julius Caesar, Africa, ca. 46 B.C.


Crawford, 458/1

Aeneas, advancing to the left, holding the Palladium
in his hand, and carrying his father Anchises on his shoulder.







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California State Univ. Northridge
copyright Feb. 1998
 

 

June 17, 2010 9:24 AM

John Paul Adams, CSUN
john.p.adams@csun.edu

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