Profile portrait of Alexander the Great, Alexander III of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. In helmet decorated with engraving of a winged horse Bucephalus. 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. 1694-17
Profile portrait of Alexander the Great, Alexander III of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. In helmet decorated with engraving of a winged horse Bucephalus. 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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