Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 257
The head belongs to a statue more than life size, whichonce held in its left hand a scabbard, while the ri^ht restedon a spear. The portrait is probably a contemporary one. 257. Alexander the Great. Silver coin (tetradrachm) struck by Lysi- machus, kiwi of Thrace (b.c. 323-281).In the British… … HISTORY •217 the Great. As king, he wears a diadem; and claiming tobe the son of the Libyan god Amnion (cp. Nos. 19, 20)he has a small rams horn growing at the side of thehead. 258. Alexander the Great.Marble bust in the British Museum, from Alexandria.
Classical antiquities
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