Bc Collection (#100)

Archytas of Tarentum
ARCHYTAS OF TARENTUM Greek philosopher, scientist and soldier, follower of Pythagoras

Roman Victory Banquet
A Roman victory is celebrated with a splendid banquet

Scene at a feast of Hortensius, Ancient Rome
Scene at one of the many lavish feasts laid on by the rich orator and advocate, Quintus Hortensius Hortalus (114-50 BC), in Ancient Rome. He was the first to include peacocks on the menu

Iliad / Priam
King of Troy, who, according to the text, reigned in 1237 BC

Jerusalem Captured
Jerusalem is captured by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, and the Jews are taken captive to Babylon

Interior / Mother & Child
A domestic interior during the Reindeer period (part of the Palaeolithic era): a mother and her child sit by the fireside as father returns from the days hunt

Stone Age Boatmaking
Stone Age man builds one of the first boats, using heated stones to hollow out a log

Reindeer Feast / Figuier
A meal of reindeer cooked on an open fire, during the Reindeer Era (part of the Stone Age)

Bronze Age Banquet
A bronze age banquet with plenty of meat and drink

Iron Age Farming
Iron age farming activities

Iron Age Farming / Figuier
Iron age agriculture - harvesting corn

Bronze Age Farming
Horticulture and a goat during the Bronze Age

Stone Age Skins & Rope
Early man scraping skins and making rope, probably during the late Stone Age

Iron Age Warfare / Renegde
Iron age warfare when fire was a relatively new discovery

Stone Age Silex
Primitive craftsmanship - making and polishing silex at Pressigny, probably during the late Stone Age

Iron Age Metalwork
Iron Age industry: various metalwork processes

Stone Age Potter
A Neolithic (Stone Age) potter

Bronze Age Metalwork
Bronze Age metal workers pour liquid bronze into casts

Lais (Greek Courtesan)
LAIS Greek courtesan

Roman Quinquireme
A Roman quinquireme from the period of the Punic Wars against Carthage

Athenian Trireme
An Athenian trireme

Solomon Israel
SOLOMON, KING OF ISRAEL with members of his court at his side

St Elmos Fire / Spears
Julius Caesar reports that his soldiers, during a campaign in North Africa, were alarmed when the tips of their spears began to glow after a storm

CIMON Athenian general & statesman

Callisthenes
CALLISTHENES Greek philosopher and historian

Heliodorus Flagellated
HELIODORUS Syrian courtier, ordered by Seeleucus Philopator to loot the Jewish temple at Jerusalem, is punished by angels who flog him severely

The Maccabees, whose family won religious and political independence for the Jews, whom they ruled from 166 BC to 63 BC, and as priests till 37 BC

Jesus King of Glory
JESUS OF NAZARETH depicted as the King of Glory, with symbols of the four Evangelists at the corners

Nineveh / Calmet
NINEVEH - A plan of the city according to Diodorus Siculus and Father Kircher

Cleopatra Vii / Munster
CLEOPATRA VII Cleopatra with an asp

Croesus Funeral Pyre
Croesus, king of Lydia, whose wealth was legendary, on his funeral pyre after defeat by Cyrus of Persia, prepares to try to take some of it with him

Neanderthaloid / Wells
NEANDERTHALOID MAN Our probable ancestor but a parallel species to Neanderthal man

Phoenician Ship
A Phoenician trading vessel arrives at Pharos

Cleopatra VI Tryphaena
CLEOPATRA VI TRYPHAENA Ruled together with her sister Berenice; they were probably the daughters of Ptolemy X

Cleopatra VII with Asp
CLEOPATRA VII with the asp which ended her life

Cleopatra Vii / Macdonald
CLEOPATRA VII

Battle of Plataea
BATTLE OF PLATAEA The Greeks, led by the Spartan Pausanias, defeat a Persian army twice their size, thereby freeing Greece from the Persian menace

Marathon (Vogel)
BATTLE OF MARATHON Miltiades, with 11, 000 Athenians and Plataeans, defeats the 60, 000-strong Persian army of Darius Hystaspes

Marathon (Church)
BATTLE OF MARATHON Miltiades, with 11, 000 Athenians and Plataeans, defeats the 60, 000-strong Persian army of Darius Hystaspes

Marathon (Anon)
BATTLE OF MARATHON Miltiades, with 11, 000 Athenians and Plataeans, defeats the 60, 000-strong Persian army of Darius Hystaspes

Greek Philosophers
Philosophers consider the meaning of life in the Grove of Academe

Zodiac & Mithras
MITHRAS depicted by the Gauls as a serpent, symbol of eternity, and - in this case - accompanied by Signs of the Zodiac

CERNUNNOS horned deity of fertility and abdundance, honoured by the Gauls and other Celtic peoples

Alexander at Tyre
He besieges Tyre, Lebanon

Herodotus / Anon Bust
HERODOTUS Greek historian

Tutankhamen Buried
Tutankhamen is taken to his tomb

Ancient Egypt Priests
Egyptian priests playing the harp

First Flying Device
THE FIRST FLYING DEVICE a model dove was made from wood by Archytas of Tarento, (428-347 BC) it was sustained by gas and had flapping wings

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