2-714-431 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Death of Alcibiades', 1890. Alcibiades (c450-404 BC), Athenian statesman and general, shifted alliance during the Peloponnesian War. In 404 BC, exiled in Phrygia in the Achaemenid Empire his residence was set on fire and he was assassinated by Persian soldiers. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]