09-12-2007, 12:50 AM
Quote:If I'm not mistaken it's from the Xanthos relief.
....I'm not so sure, Giannis. I take it you mean the Nereid frieze in the British museum ?
It too shows a siege, with line of Hoplites etc, but they mostly have Attic-type helmets,(IIRC) while these mostly have piloi
The style doesn't seem quite the same either.......
I think it might be a different monument ..... :? ?
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
