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Aristotle tutoring Alexander by J L G
Ferris 1895 |
Mid-nineteenth century map of
Alexander's empire |
The Macedonian phalanx
counter-attacks during the battle of the carts |
Portrait bust of Alexander from a 19th
century photo of an original now in the British Museum, but found in
Alexandria |
Statuette of Alexander as founder (ktistes)
of Alexandria and found in the city, but now in the British Museum |
Alexander addresses his officers
before the battle of Issus by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
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Alexander laying out the city of
Alexandria by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Alexander visits the Apis bull at the
temple in Memphis by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The dying Alexander receiving his soldiers by
Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Alexander attacks the citadel on the Indus by
Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The punishment of Bessus by Andre
Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The taming of Bucephalus by Andre
Castaigne (1898-1899) |
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The battle with the carts in the
Thracian pass by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The killing of Cleitus by Andre
Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Alexander's army passing the foot of
Mount Climax by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The death of Darius by Andre
Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Alexander coercing the Delphic Oracle
by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Alexander hands his doctor the note
warning that his doctor is poisoning him whilst proceeding to take
the medicine, by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
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Alexander visits the Persian queens
and Princesses after the battle of Issus by Andre Castaigne
(1898-1899) |
Alexander at the altar fire on the
eve of the battle of Gaugamela by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The army crosses the Gedrosian Desert
by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Alexander cutting the Gordian knot by
Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The fierce struggle of Alexander's
cavalry at the fording of the river in the battle of the Granicus by
Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The sacrifices at Troy by Andre
Castaigne (1898-1899) |
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The wounded Alexander passing through
his fleet in India by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The phalanx attacking the centre in
the battle of the Hydaspes by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The ladder breaks stranding Alexander
and a few companions within the Mallian town by Andre Castaigne
(1898-1899) |
The capture of Miletus by Andre
Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Alexander quelling the Opis mutiny by
Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Pausanias
assassinates Philip during
the procession into the theatre by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
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Alexander accepts the surrender of
Porus by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The wedding of Alexander and Roxane
by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The charge of the Persian scythed
chariots at the battle of Gaugamela by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
The marriages of Alexander and his
men to the Persian princesses and ladies by Andre Castaigne
(1898-1899) |
A naval action during the siege of
Tyre by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) |
Mid-nineteenth century reconstruction
of Alexander's catafalque based on the description by Diodorus |
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Alexander reaches the body of Darius |
Alexander inspects the corpse of
Darius |
The war council of Darius from the
Darius vase (published 1899) |
Alexander visits Diogenes living in a
barrel at Corinth in an early 19th century engraving |
Alexander visits Diogenes at Corinth
by W. Matthews (1914) |
Map of the Empire of Alexander the Great
(1893) |
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Black Cleitus saves Alexander in the
charge at the Granicus (19th century adaptation from the
painting by Charles le Brun) |
Demosthenes before the Athenian
Council by Louis Loeb (1898) |
Alexander visits Diogenes at Corinth
by Louis Loeb (1898) |
Thais calls upon Alexander the Great
to put the palace of Persepolis to the torch by G. Simoni |
The Death of Alexander the Great
after the painting by Karl von Piloty (1886) |
The injured Rajah Porus is brought
before Alexander (19th century adaptation from the
painting in the Louvre done in 1673 by Charles le Brun) |
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The weddings at Susa: Alexander to
Stateira and Hephaistion to Drypetis (late 19th century
engraving) |
Alexander inconsolable due to the death of Cleitus, by Pinelli, Rome
1821 |
Alexander taming Bucephalus by F. Schommer, German, late 19th
century |
Alexander and Hephaistion visit the family of Darius in their tent
after the battle of Issus, engraved by Gerard Edelinck from a
painting by Charles le Brun done for Louis XIV in 1661 (1852) |
Excellent map of Alexander’s conquests using the Latin nomenclature,
published in Germany in 1893 |
Reconstruction of the mosaic depiction
of the Battle of Issus after a painting by Apelles found in the
House of the Faun at Pompeii (published 1893) |
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Lithograph from circa the 1820’s and
probably Austrian depicting Alexander gifting Campaspe (aka Pankaste)
to Apelles the painter; the German caption translates, The power of
paintings, Alexander gifts his beloved to Apelles |
Reconstruction of the catafalque of Alexander the Great drawn and
engraved by Arsenne based on the description in Diodorus (published
in 1810) |
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