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Indeed, Poseidon leaning on a trident, or striking with a trident, may be fairly frequent.
But Poseidon hurling a trident is quite exceptional; and where he is so represented, as
on the early silver coins of Poseidonia, he regularly wears a ehlaniys over his arms.
Also the head, with its neat plait twisted round trim locks, its long silky moustache,
and its full beard with undulating strands, seems too refined and dignified for any deity
beneath the rank of Zeus. I conclude that the originator of this remarkable type was
deliberately portraying Poseidon in the guise of Zeus (cp. supra ii. 795 n. 3 figs. 762—
764). After all, Poseidon was but a by-form of the greater god (supra p. 736). J. JUthner,
Fig. 901.
however, in the Ath. MUth. 1937 lxii. 136—148 decides for an athlete hurling his
akontion!
ii. 741 Zeus Ithomcitas. C. T. Seltman in the Cambridge University Reporter 1932
lxii. 799 claims that the Brussels tetradrachm of Zankle-Messana [supra ii. 794 f.
fig. 757)1 ' which should be dated ca. 461 B.C., the year of liberation from the tyranny,
has on the obverse a figure, not of Poseidon, but of Zeus fulminating (Num. Chrott.
1883, p. 168) which closely resembles the Zeus Ithomatas on coins of Messenia from
369 H.C. onwards (B.A/.C. Peloponnesus, PI. xxii, r, 6, 7, 10). Thus the Messanians
of Zankle showed their sympathy with the Messenians, who in 461 were being besieged
on lthome. Apparently, therefore, Hagelaidas made the statue before 461, therefore at
73—2
Indeed, Poseidon leaning on a trident, or striking with a trident, may be fairly frequent.
But Poseidon hurling a trident is quite exceptional; and where he is so represented, as
on the early silver coins of Poseidonia, he regularly wears a ehlaniys over his arms.
Also the head, with its neat plait twisted round trim locks, its long silky moustache,
and its full beard with undulating strands, seems too refined and dignified for any deity
beneath the rank of Zeus. I conclude that the originator of this remarkable type was
deliberately portraying Poseidon in the guise of Zeus (cp. supra ii. 795 n. 3 figs. 762—
764). After all, Poseidon was but a by-form of the greater god (supra p. 736). J. JUthner,
Fig. 901.
however, in the Ath. MUth. 1937 lxii. 136—148 decides for an athlete hurling his
akontion!
ii. 741 Zeus Ithomcitas. C. T. Seltman in the Cambridge University Reporter 1932
lxii. 799 claims that the Brussels tetradrachm of Zankle-Messana [supra ii. 794 f.
fig. 757)1 ' which should be dated ca. 461 B.C., the year of liberation from the tyranny,
has on the obverse a figure, not of Poseidon, but of Zeus fulminating (Num. Chrott.
1883, p. 168) which closely resembles the Zeus Ithomatas on coins of Messenia from
369 H.C. onwards (B.A/.C. Peloponnesus, PI. xxii, r, 6, 7, 10). Thus the Messanians
of Zankle showed their sympathy with the Messenians, who in 461 were being besieged
on lthome. Apparently, therefore, Hagelaidas made the statue before 461, therefore at
73—2