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Depicts Alexander the Great on his horse Bucephalus (left) charging towards a rather scared-looking King Darius III of Persia (on the chariot, reaching out).
The Mosaic was created around 100 BC and was found in the House of the Faun in Pompeii. It is a good example of propaganda for "the West" defeating the cowardly "East", as well as the "Western Way of Warfare" -- the depiction of the west (Alexander's army and the hoplite spears in the background) as ordered, whereas the east (Darius' army, behind Darius) as disorganized and dishonourable (Sidebottom, 2004).
Photographed by Wikipedia user Magrippa at the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli in August 2006.
The Mosaic was created around 100 BC and was found in the House of the Faun in Pompeii. It is a good example of propaganda for "the West" defeating the cowardly "East", as well as the "Western Way of Warfare" -- the depiction of the west (Alexander's army and the hoplite spears in the background) as ordered, whereas the east (Darius' army, behind Darius) as disorganized and dishonourable (Sidebottom, 2004).
Photographed by Wikipedia user Magrippa at the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli in August 2006.
Uploaded by Jan van der Crabben. Original illustration by Magrippa.
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