Une chercheuse en numismatique et par ailleurs amie d'Ovide, Marie-Laure, me signale une publication de David Woods, dans le journal de la Royal Numismatic Society de Londres (2020). L'article est intitulé "Commodus, Phaethon, and Ovid?". En voici le résumé :
It is argued that the reverse of a newly-discovered medallion of Commodus has nothing to do with Mt Argaeus in Cappadocia despite some superficial similarities between its depiction of a mountain and the standard depiction of Mt Argaeus on the coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia. On the contrary, it probably depicts Phaethon in the chariot of the sun as he descends too near the earth, an interpretation supported by the fact that the brief reverse legend seems to abbreviate a half-line from Ovid’s description of that event.
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Bimetallic medallion of Commodus (60mm, 206g). Ex Nomos, Auction 19 (17 November 2019), lot 280. © Nomos AG.
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