Tag: Great
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01 Work, The Art of War, Charles Le Brun’s The passage of the Granicus, with footnotes
The Battle of the Granicus in May 334 BC was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great of Macedon and the Persian Achaemenid Empire… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Theophilos Hatzimihail’s Alexander the Great killing Mithridates, with footnotes
Sold for £90,000 on 16 November 2016 Mighty, regal and handsome as an Olympian god, his golden armour flashing lightning, Alexander the Great, riding Bucephalus, his beloved black stallion and one of antiquity’s most famous horses, plunges his lance in the body of Mithridatis, a high ranking Persian and son-in-law of king Darius III, at the…
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01 Work The Art of War, Armand-Charles Caraffe’s Metellus besieges a city, with footnotes
Tamburlaine is a poor shepherd who rises to power to live out his blood-soaked fantasy of conquering the world. His extravagant savagery shows what horror can result when unlimited political libido is let loose upon the world… Tamburlaine the Great is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life…
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