Images

An 1839 oil-on-canvas portrait by Henri Lehmann of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt (1811-1886). (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)

A photograph of Edward Elgar (1857-1934) at his desk in 1931. Taken by Herbert Lambert. (National Portrait Gallery)

During the latter stages of the Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805), the cavalry of the Russian Imperial Guard launch a desperate charge on the Pratzen Heights, seizing an Eagle standard from the French 4th Line Regiment. Shortly after...

The French camp on the eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, 1 December 1805. Oil on canvas painting by Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, 1808.

Workman weighing and loading silphium at Cyrene, Laconian cup, c. 565 BCE. An illustration from Food, The History of Taste, Paul Freedman (ed), California Studies in Food and Culture, 2007. Photographed by Daderot.

A silver drachma, bearing the image of the silphium seed, from Cyrene, Libya, dated 500-480 BCE. Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin.

A coin minted during the reign of Magas of Cyrene, showing the silphium plant, c. 300-282 or 275 BCE. Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

Painting of Robert Guiscard and Roger Bosso receiving the keys to the city of Palermo. The city fell to Norman armies in January 1072, after nearly six months of siege. Fresco by Guiseppe Patania, Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo, 1830.

Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752-1828), Austrian general most famous for being defeated by Napoleon during the Ulm Campaign of September-October 1805, during the War of the Third Coalition. Illustration by an unknown artist, from the...

Athamas Kills the Son of Ino, oil on canvas by Gaetano Gandolfi, 1801, Villa Marana, Bologna.