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                                Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 931. Closing Date: Jun 08, 
                                2005. THRACE, Bizye. Philip I. 244-249 AD. Ć 
                                29mm (15.60 gm, 7h). BID Estimate $1000  

                              THRACE, Bizye. Philip I. 244-249 AD. Ć 29mm (15.60 
                              gm, 7h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left 
                              / BIZ-VHN-WN (WN ligate), Capaneus, armed, 
                              preparing to scale the walls of Thebes by ladder. 
                              Mouchmov -; SNG Copenhagen -; cf. Varbanov 1709. 
                              VF, black-green patina with traces of brick-red, 
                              minor smoothing in fields. ($1000)

                              From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

                              Capaneus was one of the Argive commanders who 
                              joined forces with Polynices to retake the throne 
                              of Thebes from the latter's brother, Eteocles. 
                              According to the Roman poet, Statius, Capaneus was 
                              a man of immense size and strength. He was also an 
                              exemplar of great arrogance. While scaling the 
                              walls, he boasted that not even Zeus could stop 
                              him, whereupon a thunderbolt struck him down, 
                              killing him. Capaneus' wife, Evadne, distraught at 
                              her husband's death, immolated herself upon his 
                              pyre.


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