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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Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
California State Univ. Northridge
copyright Feb. 1998
 

 

May 22, 2009 11:03 AM

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

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