Byzas, legendary founder of Byzantium

Byzas, legendary founder of Byzantium or Byzantion, the city later known as Constantinople and then Istanbul. From a bronze coin with a head of a bearded man in a crested hermet. Biza. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de'Lazari, Rome, 1699

1699 17th Century Bearded Man Byzantion Byzantium Classical Mythology Coin Etienne Picart Filososi Giovanni Angelo Canini Greek Myth Iconografia Ignatio Delazari Legendary Megara Orator Poeti Ed Oratori Dell Antichita Regi Roman Myth

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