Alexander the Great kills Clitus, 328BC
Following a petty quarrel during a drunken feast at the palace at Maracanda, Sogdia, Alexander the Great kills his Clitus, his foster brother and cavalry commander, with a lance.~~The artist here has imaginatively incorperated a column capital topped with a bull, an archeaological discovery made by Dieulafoy at Susa, now held in the Louvre
Picture No
10644457
Media ID
47567881
Size
3500px x 5449px
(2.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Drawing by A. Castaigne, reproduced in The Century LVIII, 1899, page 405
Date
328BC
