Images (p. 190)

Image by Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe

French Camp on the Eve of the Battle of Austerlitz, 1805

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.

Image by Daderot

Weighing and Loading of Silphium at Cyrene

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.

Image by Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen

Silphium Seed on Silver Drachma

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

Image by Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.

A Coin of Magas of Cyrene with Silphium Plant

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

Image by Giuseppe Patania

Roger I & Robert Guiscard Receive the Keys to Palermo

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.

Image by Unknown Artist

Karl Mack von Leiberich

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...