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<p>[QUOTE="Trebellianus, post: 3566576, member: 91569"]Acquired this one recently(-ish) from Busso Peus -- I'd been waiting patiently for a lifetime issue where the portrait possesses (to my eyes, anyway) that indescribable, probably illusory resemblance to the actual Alexander. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]948961[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3"><b>Alexander III the Great</b>, c.332-326BC, O: head of Hercules in lion-skin headdress right / R: Zeus seated left, legs together, holding eagle and sceptre, [A]ΛEΞANΔPOY, shield in left field. Seller's photo.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander the man I'm probably unqualified to comment on, but Mary Renault's romantic, ardent, gay Alexander is a pleasant fantasy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Trebellianus, post: 3566576, member: 91569"]Acquired this one recently(-ish) from Busso Peus -- I'd been waiting patiently for a lifetime issue where the portrait possesses (to my eyes, anyway) that indescribable, probably illusory resemblance to the actual Alexander. [ATTACH=full]948961[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3][B]Alexander III the Great[/B], c.332-326BC, O: head of Hercules in lion-skin headdress right / R: Zeus seated left, legs together, holding eagle and sceptre, [A]ΛEΞANΔPOY, shield in left field. Seller's photo.[/SIZE] Alexander the man I'm probably unqualified to comment on, but Mary Renault's romantic, ardent, gay Alexander is a pleasant fantasy.[/QUOTE]
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