Philistis

Syracusan coin with portrait of Philistis (left)

Philistis, the wife of Hieron II, was a queen of ancient Syracuse, Magna Graecia, known from her coins, which are numerous, and of fine workmanship, and from the occurrence of her name (bearing the title of queen, as it does also on her coins) in some Greek inscriptions on the stands of the theater of Tauromenium (Taormina). The circumstance that it is here associated with that of Nereis, the wife of Gelon II, as well as the style and fabric of the coins, which closely resemble those of Hieron II and his son, leads to the conclusion that these were struck during the long reign of Hieron II. The most probable conjecture is that Philistis was the wife of Hieron himself.

References

• IG XIV 3 βασιλίσσας Φιλιστίδος basilissas Philistidos. IGASMG II 37
• Coins of Ancient Sicily By George Francis Hill Page 190 (2009)
• R. Rochette, Memoires de Numismaiique et d Antiquite, pp. 63–78
• Visconti, Iconogr. Grecque, vol. ii. pp. 21–25.
• The Coin Collector's Manual, Or Guide To Numismatic Student In The Formation Of A Cabinet Of Coins Page 110 by Henry Noel Humphreys (1853)
• Di Gregorio, G. 2021. The Taormina theater: The digital survey system of knowledge open in time. Proceedings of the joint international event 9th ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 & 3rd GEORES, 427-435. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/Arqueologica9.2021.12168.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)