Mytilos

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Mytilos
King
Reignc. 270 – 231 BC
Predecessor
Monunios
(probable)

Mytilos or Mytilus (

Dyrrhachion his own bronze coins bearing the king's name and the symbol of the city.[5]

Biography

Mytilus reigned in the hinterland of

Monunios.[7] After Monunios, Mytilus is the second Illyrian king to have struck coins bearing his name.[3][2] Coinage of Apollonia from the same period bore only his monogram, as well as symbols similar to those of the Aetolian League, an adversary of Epirus.[8] Copies of the Illyrian coins are kept at the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, Croatia.[9] The bronze coins had the head of Hercules on the obverse and on the reverse, Heracles' symbols: quiver, bow and mace with the words ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΥΤΙΛ.[6]

The Illyrian king Mytilus also appears in the historical accounts of ancient writers

Apollonia means that at the time of Mytilus, the Illyrians had regained the extent and authority it enjoyed in the time of Glaucias. Mytilus had even taken an excursion into the territory of Epirus.[12] It is during this time that Rome was first invited to intervene against the Illyrians, Epirotes and the Aetolians in the Balkans.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Mesihović & Šačić 2015, p. 137.
  2. ^ a b c Crawford 1985, pp. 220–221: "Some of the native communities also began to produce coinage, in the Hellenistic period, two 'kings' called Monounios and Mytilos reigning in the hinterland of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium (the former silver, the latter bronze), Rhizon (silver as well as bronze), Lissus, Scodra, Olumpa and Lychnus, and the Daorsi and the Labeatae, in the late third or early second centuries."
  3. ^ a b Šašel Kos 2005, p. 258: "Around 270 BC, soon after Pyrrhus' death, and obviously also after the death of Monunios, the name of king Mytilus appears on bronze coins of Dyrrhachium. He may have been Monunios' son and in any case he was his successor, of whom nothing else is known in the sources."
  4. ^ a b Šašel Kos 2002, p. 109; Mesihović & Šačić 2015, p. 133.
  5. ^ Mesihović & Šačić 2015, p. 133; Šašel Kos 2005, p. 258; Crawford 1985, pp. 220–221.
  6. ^ a b Mesihović & Šačić 2015, p. 133.
  7. ^ Šašel Kos 2002, p. 109.
  8. ^ Wilkes 1992, p. 129: "No Illyrian production of coins is known before King Monunios struck his coins at Dyrrhachium (see figure 11), followed by Mytilus around ten years later."
  9. ^ Duje Rendić-Miočević, Illyrian rulers' coins from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb.
  10. ^ Justin, Prol. XXV
  11. ^ Papazoglu, Les Origines ...
  12. ^ Frontinius II 5,10
  13. ^ Cass. Dio. Fr 42.1

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