Alexander the great sculpture

Hellenistic period, mid-late 2nd c. BCE Found at Manisa (ancient Magnesia ad Sipylum; see on Pleiades), Lydia, Anatolia In the collection of, and photographed on display in, the Istanbul Archaeological Museum Inv. 709 T (Mendel 536) arachne.dainst.org/entity/1067816

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Euphranor, Group Philip and Alexander the Great in Quadriga, Roman copy, det. Alexander's Head, c.338-36 BCE

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Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of Macedon, a state in northern Greece. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires in ancient history, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. - Alexander the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | bit.ly/onHATN

Alexander as Achilles – Achilles as Alexander. This Euphranor's sculpture shows Achilles receiving from his mother Thetis the new arms made for him by Hephaestus. Achilles’s portrait is arranged according to the canonical representation adopted for Alexander especially as far as his hairdressing is concerned. Roman copy from a greek original of Euphranor of Corinth (middle of the 4th century BC) and dating from c. 330 BC. München, Glyptothek