Plenty of Nothing

Pandora's Box by Steele Savage

Steele Savage did the illustrations for Edith Hamilton's Mythology. He produced many book covers for science fiction paperback publishers in 1970, the last year of his life.

Sous le F: Argenton-sur-Creuse

Argenton-sur-Creuse, under the F in France on the map, grew out of the Roman town Argentomagus, which was built on a Gaulish oppidum near an important crossroad and river crossing, and looked like this painting by Jean-Claude Golvin. Source.

The Glauberg Prince

Archaeologists examine the sandstone effigy of a Celtic warrior discovered during the examination of a mound in Glauberg, Hesse in 1996. Source.

European Macaques of the Mist

Source. Dr Caitin Green writes about the Wroxeter macaque burial.

Hermes Trismegistus Album Cover

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Red Figure Leggings

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Alexander the Great as a Pharaoh

This granite statue is thought -- on the basis of its curly locks -- to represent Alexander the Great. He was ruler of Egypt from 332 to 323 BC, but he didn't spend much time there. The statue currently resides in the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt.

Gold Sandwich Glass

Early Islamic gold sandwich glass vessel. Gold sandwich glass is also the secret ingredient of Byzantine mosaics. Source.

Eumenes Manga

The manga Historie, by Hitoshi Iwaaki, set in the wars of Alexander the Great, and centering on Alexander's secretary, Eumenes, has been running in Afternoon magazine since 2003 and is up to volume 10 in tankōbon form. The artist is Hitoshi Iwaaki.

Greek Doors

    After this, when the Sabines invaded the Roman territory, Marcus Valerius, a brother of Publicola, was made consul, and with him Postumius Tubertus. Inasmuch as the most important steps were taken with the advice and assistance of Publicola, Marcus was victorious in two great battles, and in the second of them, without losing a single Roman, slew thirteen thousand of the enemy. Besides the triumphs, he also obtained the honour of a house built for him at the public charge on the Palatine. And whereas the doors of other hosues at that time opened inwards into the vestibule, they made the outer door of his house, and of his alone, to open outwards, in order that by this concession he might be constantly partaking of public honour.

    They say that all Greek doors used to open outwards in this way, and the conclusion is drawn from their comedies, where those who are about to go out of a house beat noisily on the inside of their own doors, in order that persons passing by or standing in front of them may hear, and not be taken by surprise when the doors open out into the street.

Plutarch, Publicola, 20 (Plutarch's Lives, volume 1, pages 555-57, Perrin translation).