{"id":54014,"date":"2019-09-08T21:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T19:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/coin-to-celebrate-the-2200-anniversary-of-death-of-plautus\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T19:36:17","slug":"coin-to-celebrate-the-2200-anniversary-of-death-of-plautus","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/coin-to-celebrate-the-2200-anniversary-of-death-of-plautus\/","title":{"rendered":"Coin to celebrate the 2200 anniversary of death of Plautus"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2016, Italy celebrated the 2200 anniversary of the death of the famous Roman comedian Plautus<\/a> by minting a 2-euro coin in his honor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Titus Maccius Plautus<\/a> was born around 250 and died 184 BCE. Interestingly, his nomen<\/a><\/em> – Plautus – means “little jester” in Latin. Plautus was one of the oldest (next to Cato the Elder<\/a>) Roman writers whose works have been preserved not only in fragments. Shakespeare drew inspiration and style from his works.<\/p>\n

On the obverse of the coin are two theater masks depicting a young woman and a slave – two characters from Plautus’ works. We know these images from a mosaic<\/a> from the Capitoline Museum, which dates back to the first and second century CE.<\/p>\n

Under the left mask is the date of his death – 184 BCE, and under the right – year 2016. Under the horizontal line the inscription PLAUTO (Italian form of “Plautus”) will be engraved. The coin’s creator is Luciana De Simoni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36471,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61,211],"class_list":["post-54014","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact","kategorie_ciekawostek-coins"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/54014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/54014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=54014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}