La representación de Antinoo y Adriano-Ares/Marte en el contexto argólico

Abstract

The aim of this article is to identify the masculine figure on the obverse of an Argolic coin dedicated to Antinous (RPC 3, 390) as the emperor Hadrian represented with the iconography of Ares/Mars. To this end, a comparison between another Argive coin dedicated to the emperor Hadrian and three statues of the god Mars (possibly) belonging to the Hadrianean period will be carried out. Additionally, the article will underline the importance of Hadrian’s adventus for the city of Argos in relation to the choice of Ares/Mars for its numismatic iconography.