ADAIOS King of Thrace Scythia 253BC RARE Hercules Club Ancient Greek Coin i55823

Item: i55823

Authentic Ancient

Greek coin of

Adaios – Scythian/Thracian King: Circa 275-225 B.C.
Bronze 
16mm (6.18 grams) Struck circa: 253-243 B.C.
Reference: SNG BM 328, Youroukova 117
Head of bearded Hercules right wearing lion-skin headdress.
Club of Hercules; AΔAIOY on 
above; two monograms above.

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Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek
divine

hero Heracles
, who was the son of

Zeus (Roman equivalent
Jupiter
) and the mortal
Alcmene
. In
classical mythology
, Hercules is famous for his 
strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.

The Romans adapted the Greek hero’s iconography and myths for their 
literature and art under the name Hercules. In later
Western art
and literature and in
popular culture
, Hercules is more 
commonly used than Heracles as the name of the hero. Hercules was a 
multifaceted figure with contradictory characteristics, which enabled later 
artists and writers to pick and choose how to represent him. This article 
provides an introduction to representations of Hercules in the
later tradition
.

The Scythians or Scyths (Ancient 
Greek: Σκύθαι) were an
ancient Iranian people
of
horse-riding

nomadic pastoralists
who throughout
Classical Antiquity
dominated the
Pontic-Caspian steppe
, known at the time as
Scythia. 
Before 2006, they were believed to have ranged west of the

Altai Mountains, until a royal burial was found to the east in
Mongolia. 
By
Late Antiquity the closely-related

Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in the west. Much of the 
surviving information about the Scythians comes from the Greek historian
Herodotus 
(c. 440 BC) in his
Histories
and
Ovid 
in his poem of exile

Epistulae ex Ponto, and archaeologically from the depictions of 
Scythian life shown in relief on exquisite goldwork found in Scythian
burial mounds
in
Ukraine 
and Southern Russia
.

The name “Scythian” has also been used to refer to various peoples seen as 
similar to the Scythians, or who lived anywhere in a vast area covering 
present-day Central Asia
,
Russia, 
and Ukraine—known 
until medieval times as Scythia
. They have been described as “a network 
of culturally similar tribes.” For example, the name of the Scythians has been 
used in reference to the Goths
.

Y-Chromosome DNA testing performed on ancient Scythian skeletons dating to 
the Bronze and Iron Ages in the
Siberian

Krasnoyarsk region found that all but one of 11 subjects carried 
Y-DNA
R1a1
, with blue or green eye color and light 
hair common, suggesting mostly European origin of that particular population. A 
mummy of a Scythian warrior
found in
the Altai
,
Mongolia, 
2005, which is believed to be about 2,500 years old, was found to be a 30-to-40 
year-old man with blond hair of
noble
origin