The Classical World (89 page)

17. A baby learns to crawl as its parents, surely, look on. Athenian red-figure jug,
pelike
,
c
. 430–420
BC
.

18. Copy of the marble statue by Polyeuctus to honour the democratic orator Demosthenes in 280 bc at Athens, fortytwo years after his death.

19. Legendary Alexander at the Last Judgement with Indian Porus, Cyrus the Persian and Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian, two hundred years his senior. From Kastoria, in his home Macedonia. Late Byzantine wall painting, fourteenth
c
. ad.

20. Grave monument of husband and wife, Thraseas and Euandria, watched by a young slave girl. Attica,
c
. 350–340
BC
.

21. Reconstruction of a painting of a Macedonian lion- and boar-hunt, set in Asia. Alexander rides in to rescue what may be Lysimachus, a future Successor. Perhaps first painted in
c
. 332/1 bc, and copied later in mosaic.

22. Silver tetradrachm,
c
. 310–305 bc, showing Alexander, struck for Ptolemy I, his friend, historian and commander.

23. Indo-Greek silver tetradrachm,
c
. 170–145 bc, with bust of King Eucratides the Great, ruler and conqueror in Bactria, Sogdia and north-west India long after Alexander.

24. Indo-Greek silver tetradrachm,
c
. 150–135 bc, with bust of Menander, a truly great conqueror from Bactria through India to the river Ganges: he was remembered in Buddhist tradition.

25. Silver tetradrachm from Sardis,
c
. 213–190 bc, with head of the Seleucid King Antiochus III, defeated by Rome in 188
BC
.

26. Portrait bust of Seleucus I, Alexander’s commander of the Royal Shield-bearers and eventual Successor in Asia. Cast of Roman replica, Herculaneum.

27. Big column-capitals, removed from Ai Khanum in Afghanistan, site of the Greek city, by origin (probably) an Alexandria on the river Oxus. Reused since 1980 in this nearby tea-house.

28. Portrait bust of Demetrius the Besieger, the most flamboyant of Alexander’s successors, showing small bull’s horns, attributes of the god Dionysus. Cast of Roman replica, Herculaneum.

29. South façade of the court of Tomb I in the Moustapha Pasha necropolis, Alexandria. The painting showed Macedonian cavalrymen and standing ladies.
c
. 280–260
BC
.