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Historical history illustration! The 'Alexander Mosaic', 2nd century BCE copy of a 4th-3rd century BCE original, depicting the Battle of Issos (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah isn't there a whole thing about how that famous part might not actually have been meant to represent Alexander himself?

IIRC there was some contextual evidence that implies it's depicting one of his commanders and Alexander would have been somewhere on the chipped parts.

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