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Roman Sebasteion relief sculpture of Bellerophon, Aphrodisias Museum, Turkey
Cymon & Iphigenia by Frederic Leighton (1884)
Leighton spent 6 months searching Europe for a model to match his imagined ideal of Iphigenia. He chose Dorothy Dene, who had a classical Greek beauty and would go on to appear in several other of Leighton's works.
“If the enemy waits then he should be pressured, put into obedience and deceived; teaching the enemy, the threatener of life, that he is not worthy of the pleasure of living.”
Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri, La Bandiera (1638)
Gladiator and Vanquished Slave by Viktor Oskar Tilgner (1897)
Temple of Hephaestus, Agora Of Athens, Agoraios Kolonos Hill, Greece
Eastern Hemisphere Map circa 1000 BC
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