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Marcus Aurelius as Caesar - Struck under Antoninus Pius - Rome AD 158-159
Unusual among the Roman pantheon for keeping his original Greek identity, Apollo was raised from the position of a minor healing deity to one of the patron gods of the city of Rome by Augustus [Octavian] after the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, when he had a temple built to the god on the Palatine Hill, significantly within the pomerium [the formal and ritual boundary of the city]. In a further departure from the pattern of the major Roman gods Apollo did not rule a specific domain, but covered a more eclectic range of functions as god of youthful masculine beauty, the god of music and poetry and the god...
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Unusual among the Roman pantheon for keeping his original Greek identity, Apollo was raised from the position of a minor healing deity to one of the patron gods of the city of Rome by Augustus [Octavian] after the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, when he had a temple built to the god on the Palatine Hill, significantly within the pomerium [the formal and ritual boundary of the city]. In a further departure from the pattern of the major Roman gods Apollo did not rule a specific domain, but covered a more eclectic range of functions as god of youthful masculine beauty, the god of music and poetry and the god...
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Roman Empire Marcus Aurelius As Caesar
The depiction seen on the reverse of this rare and attractive aureus is Apollo Musagetes, the leader of the Muses, shown with the lyre to signify music and the patera showing religious sensibility.