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Appendix N
the Pergamenes invented an eponymous hero Pergamos1, they portrayed him
(fig. 985)2 with the features of Zeus PhUios.
Whether Zeus PhUios at Pergamon was in any sense Dionysiac, we can
hardly determine. A fthidle in his hand (figs. 981, 982) is no proof. Nor can we
lay stress on the curious association of Telephos with the vine3. The most we
Fig. 985. Fig. 986.
can say is that a buskined Zeus of the Arcadian type4 would not be out of
place in a town which recognised Zeus Sabdzios'0 and Zeus Bdkchos6.
Popular enthusiasm, or policy, having thus raised the emperor to the level of
Zeus Phttios, went a step further and identified the two. An alliance-coin of
Thyateira and Pergamon (fig. 986)"" surrounds the laureate bust of Trajan with
1 H. von Fritze loc. cit. p. 69 n. 1 points out that Pergamos is first mentioned as
founder of the state in two mutually complementary inscriptions of c. 50 b.c. published
together by H. Hepding in the Ath. Mitth. 1909 xxxiv. 3296°. : 0 8rj/j.os eTifx-qaev | Mitfpa-
S&ttjv Mt]vo56tov tov Sia yevovs dpxce/°f[a] | Ka'L it pea tov Kadrjye fxovos Aiovtiaov 81a yevo[vs,]\
airo[Ka~\Ta<TT7)<yavTa rots waTpibiois deois t\t)v re ttoXiv] \ /cat [ttjv] x^Pal> KaL y^vSfievov t?)s
irarpiSos /x[era Ilepya/j.ov] j /cat <$ikeTaipov veov Kriarrpi and 6 SrjpLos iTip.r\aev j YMlO pa8a.Trf\y
~ttr)vo8oTov tov Sia yev\ovs apxi-epea | /cat iepea tov ls.a]dr)yepi.6vos Ai.ovvaov, 6.TroKa\rao'T'qo'avTa \
reus iraT^pibois deols ttjv re ttoKlv /cat ttjv %wpa[f /cat yevofxevov | rrjs TrarJpt'Sos p.[e]j[a
H]epya/.io\_v /cat ^JtXe'rat/joj' veov KT[LaTr]v]. On the hero Pergamos and his cult see further
O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 1958 f.
2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Mysia p. 136 pi. 28, 1, H. von Fritze loc. cit. p. 67 pi. 3, 14
and 19 = my fig. 985, Head Hist, num.2 p. 536: (/z<<z.«'-autonomous coppers inscribed
neprAMOc and neprAMOc ktic fine.
3 When the Greeks sailed against Troy, they lost their way and attacked Mysia by
mistake. Telephos, king of the Mysians, went out against the invaders and slew many of
them, but fled before Achilles and, tripping over a vine, was wounded in the thigh by
that hero's spear (Apollod. epit. 3. 17). This occurred because Dionysos was angry with
Telephos for depriving him of his due honours (schol. //. 1. 59 f, cp. Fustath. in 11. p. 46,
35 ff. (Telephos' horse stumbles over a vine by the design of Dionysos), Tzetz. in Lyk.
Al. 211 (Dionysos repays Achilles' sacrifices by causing to spring up a vine-shoot, which
entangles Telephos), Dictys Cretensis 2. 3 (Telephus, pursued by Ulysses among the vine-
yards, trips over a vine-stem and is speared by Achilles in the left thigh)). The story is
given without detail by Pind. Isthm. 8. 109 f. 3 /cat Mvcriov dpireXoev j at/xa^'e r£i)\e'<pov
p.e\avL paivuiv tpovui ireSiov. On the golden vine presented to Telephos' wife Astyoche by
Priamos see supra p. 281 n. 4.
4 Supra p. 1178. 5 Supra p. 287 n. 2.
6 Supra pp. 287 n. 2, 954 n. o.
7 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 320 pi. 41, 5 (my fig. 986 is from a cast of
the coin), H. von Fritze loc. cit. p. 100: AVNGPTPAIANO N[c6]reP AAKI-
•tHAION AIA (=avTOKpa.Topa Nepouac Tpa'iavbv 2e/3acrTW Tepp.aviKbv Aa/ct/cw 'J'tXtoi'
Ata).
the Pergamenes invented an eponymous hero Pergamos1, they portrayed him
(fig. 985)2 with the features of Zeus PhUios.
Whether Zeus PhUios at Pergamon was in any sense Dionysiac, we can
hardly determine. A fthidle in his hand (figs. 981, 982) is no proof. Nor can we
lay stress on the curious association of Telephos with the vine3. The most we
Fig. 985. Fig. 986.
can say is that a buskined Zeus of the Arcadian type4 would not be out of
place in a town which recognised Zeus Sabdzios'0 and Zeus Bdkchos6.
Popular enthusiasm, or policy, having thus raised the emperor to the level of
Zeus Phttios, went a step further and identified the two. An alliance-coin of
Thyateira and Pergamon (fig. 986)"" surrounds the laureate bust of Trajan with
1 H. von Fritze loc. cit. p. 69 n. 1 points out that Pergamos is first mentioned as
founder of the state in two mutually complementary inscriptions of c. 50 b.c. published
together by H. Hepding in the Ath. Mitth. 1909 xxxiv. 3296°. : 0 8rj/j.os eTifx-qaev | Mitfpa-
S&ttjv Mt]vo56tov tov Sia yevovs dpxce/°f[a] | Ka'L it pea tov Kadrjye fxovos Aiovtiaov 81a yevo[vs,]\
airo[Ka~\Ta<TT7)<yavTa rots waTpibiois deois t\t)v re ttoXiv] \ /cat [ttjv] x^Pal> KaL y^vSfievov t?)s
irarpiSos /x[era Ilepya/j.ov] j /cat <$ikeTaipov veov Kriarrpi and 6 SrjpLos iTip.r\aev j YMlO pa8a.Trf\y
~ttr)vo8oTov tov Sia yev\ovs apxi-epea | /cat iepea tov ls.a]dr)yepi.6vos Ai.ovvaov, 6.TroKa\rao'T'qo'avTa \
reus iraT^pibois deols ttjv re ttoKlv /cat ttjv %wpa[f /cat yevofxevov | rrjs TrarJpt'Sos p.[e]j[a
H]epya/.io\_v /cat ^JtXe'rat/joj' veov KT[LaTr]v]. On the hero Pergamos and his cult see further
O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 1958 f.
2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Mysia p. 136 pi. 28, 1, H. von Fritze loc. cit. p. 67 pi. 3, 14
and 19 = my fig. 985, Head Hist, num.2 p. 536: (/z<<z.«'-autonomous coppers inscribed
neprAMOc and neprAMOc ktic fine.
3 When the Greeks sailed against Troy, they lost their way and attacked Mysia by
mistake. Telephos, king of the Mysians, went out against the invaders and slew many of
them, but fled before Achilles and, tripping over a vine, was wounded in the thigh by
that hero's spear (Apollod. epit. 3. 17). This occurred because Dionysos was angry with
Telephos for depriving him of his due honours (schol. //. 1. 59 f, cp. Fustath. in 11. p. 46,
35 ff. (Telephos' horse stumbles over a vine by the design of Dionysos), Tzetz. in Lyk.
Al. 211 (Dionysos repays Achilles' sacrifices by causing to spring up a vine-shoot, which
entangles Telephos), Dictys Cretensis 2. 3 (Telephus, pursued by Ulysses among the vine-
yards, trips over a vine-stem and is speared by Achilles in the left thigh)). The story is
given without detail by Pind. Isthm. 8. 109 f. 3 /cat Mvcriov dpireXoev j at/xa^'e r£i)\e'<pov
p.e\avL paivuiv tpovui ireSiov. On the golden vine presented to Telephos' wife Astyoche by
Priamos see supra p. 281 n. 4.
4 Supra p. 1178. 5 Supra p. 287 n. 2.
6 Supra pp. 287 n. 2, 954 n. o.
7 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 320 pi. 41, 5 (my fig. 986 is from a cast of
the coin), H. von Fritze loc. cit. p. 100: AVNGPTPAIANO N[c6]reP AAKI-
•tHAION AIA (=avTOKpa.Topa Nepouac Tpa'iavbv 2e/3acrTW Tepp.aviKbv Aa/ct/cw 'J'tXtoi'
Ata).