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The Katanean Brothers

Printed Auction 40 Lot 21

SICILY. Katane. Circa 186-170 B.C. Æ. 4.67 gm. 20 mm. Ivy-wreathed head of youthful Dionysos right; ΛAΣIO above, monogram behind / The Katanean brothers, Amphinomos and Anapias, carrying their parents on their shoulders; KATANAIΩN around. BAR Issue 15. HGC 2, 626 (R2). CNS III p. 98, 10. SNG Copenhagen 196. SNG ANS 1285. Good Very Fine; attractive glossy olive green patina; good style, sharply struck obverse; reverse weaker. Very rare.

A version of this classic tale of filial piety was told by Lykurgos of Athens (Leocrates, 9). The Katanean brothers, so the story goes, picked up and carried their aged parents to escape the eruption of Mount Etna. Other townsfolk who abandoned their parents were overtaken and perished, but when the lava and flames reached the brothers ("And now let us observe the mercy shown by the Gods towards good men"), they split around them, sparing them, due to their filial piety.

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