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King Antiochus III showed remarkable heroism at the Battle of the Arius River in 208 BC. Knowing that the fate of the battle depended on holding off the enemy cavalry force long enough for his army to form up, he fought in the thickest of the action with his royal guard

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2020-08-09

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(The Drinking Contest of Dionysos and Herakles, 100 CE, Antioch)

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2020-07-21

King Antiochus III showed remarkable heroism at the Battle of the Arius River in 208 BC. Knowing that the fate of the battle depended on holding off the enemy cavalry force long enough for his army to form up, he fought in the thickest of the action with his royal guard.

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2020-06-22

Dark Fantasy/Gothic concept art.
By Mike Franchina.
All credit goes to the artist.
https://t.co/F3JZGTzlee

Paladin of the 3rd Circle; A member of the Procession of the Sacred Affliction; Paladin of the 4th Circle; Yeoman of the Principality of New Antioch
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2020-06-05

(Dramatic) Illustration of the Day:
Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare (c.1860)
Pericles solves the riddle of King Antiochus & his daughter. The illustration tastefully omits “the frightful heads of the former Princes [who failed to find the answer] placed upon his Castle wall”

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2020-05-23

One of the most ancient known relief carving depicting shaking hands.

Antiochus-I (King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene), shaking hands with Hercules (Heracles). Located in Turkey.


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2020-05-10

Lost dog, Antioch near John Muir Elementary.

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2020-04-02

Margaret of Antioch: emerging from the back of a Dragon. The hem of her mantle hangs from the dragon's mouth.

I can hear that dragon happily munching!
Book of Hours, Morgan Library
MS M.117 fol. 52v.

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2020-03-27

"[The Eucharist] is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote to prevent us from dying ... that we should live for ever in Jesus Christ." ~St. Ignatius of Antioch

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2020-03-23

➡️La Maladie d'Antiochus, ou Antiochus et Stratonice, par  Ingres, 1840
Lady Eglé Charlemont sert de modèle pr Stratonice, Mme Ingres pr le médecin et Ingres pr Séleucos.
Antiochos I (325-261 av.JC.), fils de Séleucos I, aime Stratonice, l'épouse de son père, et en tombe malade.

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2020-03-02

Few have succeeded in gaming the giant pink giraffe of Antioch

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2020-02-23

St. Ignatius of Antioch (A.D. 107), preparing for martyrdom: "I look forward with joy to the wild animals held in readiness for me; I will coax them to devour me… I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the wild beasts that I may be found the pure bread of Christ."

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2020-02-01

The theme this week is On the Street Where You Live, so I decided I would draw a memorial statue located in Downtown Antioch. It Is a 7ft bronze sculpture of a Native American Tree Marker that was placed on a Native American trail that passes through Antioch.

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2020-01-30

Alexandre-Charles Guillemot.1786-1831. Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease.1808.

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2020-01-22

Mosaics depicting the drinking contest between Dionysos and Herakles in Sepphoris, Israel and Antioch, Turkey

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2020-01-03

Saint Margaret of Antioch. Dating from about 1475, this work is an outstanding example of the Languedoc style of the late fifteenth century, which was centered in medieval Toulouse, France. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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2019-10-05