The Youthful Heracles-Melqart in Tyre. Choosing a Visual Language for a Phoenician God in the Hellenistic Period
The Hellenistic silver coins of Tyre were widely used and accepted in the Southern Levant. They depicted the head of the youthful and beefy Heracles-Melqart on the obverse. In this paper, the image of Heracles is discussed and contextualized within the religious life of Tyre. It is argued that the i...
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| Language: | Italian |
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Salvatore Sciascia Editore
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Mythos |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/mythos/5419 |