2-714-388 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Bagaeus Delivering His Messages to the Persian Guard', 1890. Bagaeus (fl. c520-517BC), an Achaemenid nobleman with written orders from Darius I to assure obedience of Oreates' bodyguards with a final order to kill him. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]