Sujet

Death of Pausanias', 1890.

Légende

'Death of Pausanias', 1890. Pausanias, Spartan regent and general suspected of conspiring with Xerxes I during the Greco-Persian Wars, on arrest he escaped to the temple of Athena, was held siege and died of starvation. 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

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19F22_040

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,4Mo (4,9Mo) / 46,9cm x 31,7cm / 5538 x 3748 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Gravure portrait porter faim arts pays corps livre la mort antique Grec La Grèce Athènes guerre affamé endroit siècle généralités littérature famine concept règle faible cadavre trahison conspiration conspirateur 19e siècle La Grèce Antique Spartiate Grec Antique trahison malnutrition dix-neuvième siècle histoire historique The Print Collector gravure portrait Anonyme Cassells Edmund Co Cassell & Co Edmund Ollier Ollier Lacedaemon Cassell and Company Ltd Cassell & Company conspirators Cassell & Cassell's Illustrated Universal History Early and Greek History guerres médiques Pausanias