Also I don't believe there was a river at Zama. That was a meeting at a different location prior to the battle when Scipio was originally proposing peace terms to the Carthaginians, which they obviously ended up rejecting.
Also I don't believe there was a river at Zama. That was a meeting at a different location prior to the battle when Scipio was originally proposing peace terms to the Carthaginians, which they obviously ended up rejecting.
Daniel and those Jews in front of Nebuchadnezzar?
Nope, but you're on the right tract.
Odysseus before Alcinous?
The supplicant looks pretty Greek but the court itself doesn't...
the brothers of Josef in Egypt?
Nope, Oda was still closest on this
All those lions in the pictures... Got to be Babylon or some other Mesopotamian power
Nebuchadnezzar quelling the rebels? Or that Hebrew guy in front of Tiglath Pileser or Sargon?
Well if it has to do with Jews and its not Nebuchadnezzar then I figure it must be some Jews thanking Cyrus or something.
It doesn't have anything to do with Jews. But it is from Babylon.
Are those books on the ground or the dress of some dude? If they are books, the hammurabi codex. If a dress, no clue
Hammurabi is magnanimous to his defeated enemy? I mean I hear he spared a few of his foes.
The Code of Hammurabi? A patient (supine) sues his doctor (standing) for not curing him under the Code of Hammurabi.
Yes a river of blood, ....... Carthaginian blood! Mwahahahahhahah!Originally Posted by Lord Oda Nobunaga
That must be the insulting reply of the Cossacks to the Sultan's polite request. I'm not sure if he finally gave these naughty chaps the lesson they deserved...
Correct. This has become one of my favourite historical paintings, and contrary to the usual sequence this historical event is known because of this painting. (see link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_o...zhian_Cossacks
Below is the version of the reply that I can post under the ToS, version 1 is much fruitier and worth a look. (again, see link)
rep and your go.Version 2
The Kozaks of the Dnieper to the Sultan of Turkey:
Thou Turkish Satan, brother and companion to the accursed Devil, and companion to Lucifer himself, Greetings!
What the hell kind of noble knight art thou? The Devil voids, and thy army devours. Never wilt thou be fit to have the sons of Christ under thee: thy army we fear not, and by land and on sea we will do battle against thee.
Thou scullion of Babylon, thou wheelwright of Macedonia, thou beer-brewer of Jerusalem, thou goat-flayer of Alexandria, thou swineherd of Egypt, both the Greater and the Lesser, thou sow of Armenia, thou goat of Tartary, thou hangman of Kamenetz, thou evildoer of Podoliansk, thou grandson of the Devil himself, thou great silly oaf of all the world and of the netherworld and, before our God, a blockhead, a swine's snout, a mare's arse, a butcher's cur, an unbaptized brow, May the Devil take thee! That is what the Kozaks have to say to thee, thou basest-born of runts! Unfit art thou to lord it over true Christians!
The date we write not for no calendar have we got; the moon is in the sky, the year is in a book, and the day is the same with us here as with thee over there, and thou canst kiss us thou knowest where!
Koshovyi Otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host.
Last edited by Spear Dog; May 14, 2014 at 09:50 AM. Reason: nearly forgot the link.
Ah, those cossacks, never respecting His Magnificence.
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The HMS Emerald saving the crew of the HMS Sandfly?