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But it's not Alexander that she's favouring, because the Greek letters beside her tell us that this is the coin of King Lysimachus.
但她出觀在這里并非要保佑亞歷山大，因為她旁邊的希臘字母表明,這是利西馬科斯的銀幣。
Lysimachus had been one of Alexander's generals and companions.
利西馬科斯曾是亞歷山大麾下的一名將軍,也是他的朋友。
He ruled Thrace from Alexander's death until his own death in 281 BC.
他在亞歷山大死后統治著色雷斯，直到公元前281年去世。
So why didn't Lysimachus mint a coin that showed himself?
利西馬科斯從未鑄造過帶自己頭像的硬幣，
The answer is quite simple:he's trying in this coin to appropriate the glory and the authority of his predecessor.
他選擇贊美前任統治者的榮耀與權威。這是一種對英雄形象的操縱，幾乎可以算身份盜竊。
Alexander died in his early thirties, and his empire quickly disintegrated into a confusion of shifting territories under competing warlords-Lysimachus was just one of these.
亞歷山大30出頭便英年早逝，他的帝國迅速瓦解，手下統治各塊領地的將領開始了激烈的斗爭，利西馬科斯只是其中之一。
All of the war lords claimed that they were the true heirs of Alexander, and many of them minted coins with his image on them to prove it.
所有的將領都聲稱自己才是亞歷山大的真正繼承者，很多人都鑄造了帶有亞歷山大頭像的貨幣來證明這一點。
This was a struggle fought out not just on the battlefield but on the coinage.
這不僅是戰場上的戰爭，也是貨幣上的戰爭。
It's a textbook early example of a timeless political ploy:
這是一種永恒的政治手段：
harnessing the authority and the glamour of a great leader of the past to boost yourself in the present.
利用以前某位統治者的威儀與榮耀往現任統治者臉上貼金。
Dead reputations are usually more stable and more manageable than living ones.
已故者的名望更穩固，也更容易操控。
Since the Second World War, for example, Churchill and de Gaulle have been claimed by British and French political leaders of all hues when it suited the day's agenda.
例如，二戰以后，英國和法國的政治家，不管屬于什么政治派別，只要情況有利，就會援引丘吉爾和戴高樂。
But in democratic societies, this is a high-risk strategy, as Andrew Marr, the political commentator, points out。
但政治評論員兼廣播主持安德魯馬爾指出，在民主社會，這種行為的風險很大。
