Iconography: religion and politics
Macedonia, king Amyntas III (393-69 BC),stater, SNG Leake and General coll.2015
The hero Heracles seems to have been a preferred god of the Macedonian kings,perhaps even at an early stage with a tendency towards their identification with the venerated hero.
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