Title

Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse', 1890.

Caption

'Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse', 1890. Athenian infantry trapped in a quarry during their final retreat in the Sicilian Expedition 415- 414 BC) of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F22_050

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,4Mb (4,3Mb) / 19,8in x 11,9in / 5932 x 3556 (300dpi)

Keywords

engraving portrait exterior outdoors Italy people male man men arts protection country book guy valley arrow weapon weapons geography fighting vulnerable protected trapped crowded Sicily ancient Greek Greece Athens military war location retreat century protect shielding boulder soldier literature SHIELD concept quarry defeat B&W defeated MONOCHROME warfare Regiment Day 19th century Syracuse infantry black & white black and white B W weaponry Athenian Ancient Greece Ancient Greek nineteenth century history historic The Print Collector 5th century BC geographical feature Peloponnesian War TGN illustration outside engraving portrait Unknown Cassells Edmund Co Cassell & Co Edmund Ollier Ollier Cassell and Company Ltd Sicilian Expedition Cassell & Company Cassell & Cassell's Illustrated Universal History Early and Greek History