Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

Gymus (Carise).
See Pyrnus.
Gyrton (Thessaliae) situated near the modern Tatari, five
miles north of Larissa, Eu. 53 ; mentioned in the Iliad
a^ being one of the cities under the rule of Polypoetes,
Eu. 162.
H.
Hadriani (Bithyniae), now Edrenus, on the left bank of
the Rhyndacus; its people called 'A Jpiavflj, As. 63.
Hadrianopolis (Thraciael still so called, and now of greater
importance than when under the Romans, Eu. 53.
Halicarnassus (Cariae) a colony of Troezen; emblems of
Pallas and Neptune common to both cities ; coins of its
Greek satraps, As. 63.
Halonesus in the Mgean Sea rendered prosperous by the
patronage of Philip, son of Amyntas, Ins. •29-
Hamath, the city so called in the Scriptures, named
Epiphaneia by Antiochus Epiphanes, now Hama, As.
58.
Harpagus burns the temple of Minerva at Phocaea, As. 101.
Harpasa (Carise) nejir the junction of the Harpasus with
the Mseander ; its ancient name still preserved. As.
64.
Hebon a surname of the Bacchus worshipped at Neopolis
Campanice, Eu. 116. 130.
Hebrus, now Maritza, formed at Philippopolis Thraciae by
the confluence of two rivers, Eu. 92.
Hecate, her temple at Lagena, near Stratoniceia Cariae;
her worship typified on the coins of the latter city.
As. 124.
Hecatomnus, satrap of Halicarnassus and Caria, succeeded
by three sons, Mausolus, Idrieus, and Pixodarus, and
two daughters, Artemisia and Ada, As. 63.
Hecatonnesi, or islands of Apollo, a cluster of islands on
the i^Solic coast, now called the Moskonisia, Ins. 31.
Hectse, or sixths of the (double) stater of Asiatic Greece,
numerous, but being generally anepigraph, of doubtful
attribution, 3].
Heiponium or Hipponium, now Monteleone, a Greek offset
from Locri, afterwards colonized by the Romans, by
whom it was called Vibo and Valentia, Eu. 120 : the
goddess Pandina (Hecate or Nemesis ?) represented on
some of its coins, Eu. 121.
Heliocles the last Greek king of Bactria, K. 66.
Heliopohs (Ccele-Syrise), now Baalbek, its ancient importance
; colonized by Augustus, though its earliest extant
coins are those of Nerva, As. 64.
Henna. See Enna.
Hephfestia (Lemni), its name and worship of Vulcan derived
from the volcanic nature of its site ; symbols of
Vulcan on its coins, Ins. 19.
Heracleia, chief town of the Trachinii, its
cient Trachis, Eu. 80.
citadel the an-
(Acarnaniae), now Aio Vasili, in the Gulf of
Arta, its types Hercules and Bacchus ; inscription there
relating to the latter ; shown to have been a Corinthian
colony by the Pegasus on its coins, Eu. 54.
(Bithynia?) a colony of Megara and Tanagra;
still an important city, and its ancient name preserved j
names of its tyrants. As. 65.
(Cariae) on the river Timeles, As. 65.
(loniffi) anciently called Latmus; position of its
ruins; its ancient importance proved by one of its
tetradrachma extant ; mistaken by Chandler for Myus,
As. 65.
(Lucaniae) colonized by the Tarentines in 433
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B.C. ; its remains at Policoro ; close resemblance of its
coins to those of Taras, Eu. 121, 122.
Heracleia (Thraciae). See Perinthus Thraciae.
Heracleides, satrap of Babylon, expelled by Demetrius I.
of Syria, K. 27.
, artist's name on a coin of Catana, Ins. 53.
Heraea (Arcadiae) on the river Alpheius, near the frontier
of Elisj its vestiges of Roman times, Eu. 54.
a surname of the city Hybla in Sicily where Phintias
of Agrigentum was defeated by Icetas of Syracuse in
287 B.C., Ins. 60.
Hercules, his head on coins of Philip II. of Macedonia,
and not that of Apollo, K. 3 : honoured as the founder
of Cius Bithyniae, As. 42 : of Callatis Moesiae, Eu. 31 : of
Crolon in Italy, Eu. 119: his temple at Erythrae loniae.
As. 58 : at Argos Argolidis, Eu. 19 : at Thasus and at
Tyre, Ins. 44.
Hermseus, coin of a king of Bactria of that name,
K. 56.
Hermes, the goat sacred to him as the god of shepherds,
Eu. 6.
Hermocapelia (Lydiae) on the river Hermus ; its coins.
As. 66.
Hermogenes of Alabanda, his treatise upon the temple of
Bacchus which he built at Teos Ionise, As. 131.
Herod Antipas becomes tetrarch of Galilaea and Peraea in
A.D. 1, K. 40.
Agrippa II., commencement of his reign in Judaea
in A.D. 52, K. 40.
Hesperis. See Evesperides.
Hicetas, tyrant of Syracuse. See Icetas.
Hierapolis (Phrygiae), ruins of this city at Pambuk kalej
nearer the Lycus than the Maeander, though distin-
guished as ad Maeandrum ; its numerous temples in
conformity with its coins. As. 66.
Hierapytna (Cretae), now lerapetra, on the isthmus of the
eastern peninsula of Crete, Ins. 20.
Hiero I., the colony established by him at Catana expelled
soon after his death, and removed to Inessa, Ins. 51.
II., removes the inhabitants of Catana Siciliae to
Leontium, fills their places with Syracusans and Pelo-
ponnesians, and changes the name of the city to iEtna,
Ins. 53 : his coins, Ins. 76.
Hierocaesareia (Lydiae), Diana Persice there worshipped.
As. 66.
Hieronymus, tyrant of Syracuse, his coins, Ins. 77.
Hieropolis (Ciliciae) supposed to be the same place as Megarsa.
As. 67.
(Cyrrhesticae), its more ancient name Bambyce
preserved in its modern name Membidj ; its position,
As. 67.
Hilla, a decadrachmon of Alexander the Great, now in the
British Museum, found there by Major Ravvlinson, K. 5.
Himera (Siciliae) an offset from Zancle in the seventh cen-
in the fifth
tury B.C. ; joined by Dorians of Acragas
century; destroyed by the Carthaginians in 409 e.c. ; a
new colony there founded two years after, at the Thermae
Himeraeae, now Termini; its coins inscribed 'I^e-
paUiv and etp/jirai', Ins. 58, 59.
Himilco. See Lilybaeum.
of Miletus the builder of the Athenian Pei-
Hippodamus
raeeus, and of the city Rhodes, Ins. 34.
Hippurius the tributary of the Maeander upon which
Blaundus Lydiae was situated. As. 34.
Histiaea (Euboeae) on the northern shore of the island ;
its
name changed to Oreos on receiving a colony sent by
Pericles, but no coins under that name, Ins. 20.
Holmi (Ciliciae), its inhabitants removed by Seleucus I. to
Seleuceia ad Calycadnum, As. 68.