Excerpt from Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society, Vol. 11

The detailed examination of various types of the coins of Caulonia and Selinus (Numismat. Chron. XXXVI. and XXXVIII.), has appeared to conduct us to certain principles of general application.

In the first place, we have seen that the Greek colonisers of Italy and Sicily carried with them to their new settlements, and tenaciously retained, the forms of religion and mythology, the gods, legends, and symbols, that had been in traditional favour with them in their original seats.

From the number of races or tribes that were frequently associated in a single colony, the transplanted worships and mythologies were proportionably numerous and complex. Which, from among them, became most important in the new locality, and most prevalent on its monuments, seems to have been decided - first, by the predominance of a certain tribe or leader, and secondly, by the native Influences of the settlement, - that is, by the special harmony of some remarkable local circumstances with a particular branch of the imported myths. Which, out of a handful of various seeds, was destined to strike root and flourish most luxuriantly, was to a great extent determined by the chances of peculiar adaptation to the new soil.

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