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| Picture No | 10644457 |
| Date | 328BC |
| Description | Alexander the Great kills Clitus, 328BC |
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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.
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| Source | Drawing by A. Castaigne, reproduced in The Century LVIII, 1899, page 405. |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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