Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman military leader, c. 270 – 208 BC. Consul of the Roman Republic, winner of the spolia opima for killing Viridomarus at the Battle of Clastidium, conqueror of Syracuse. Shown with the arms of Sicily. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor’s Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classica
Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman military leader, c. 270 – 208 BC. Consul of the Roman Republic, winner of the spolia opima for killing Viridomarus at the Battle of Clastidium, conqueror of Syracuse. Shown with the arms of Sicily. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor’s Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.
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