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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 book Historisches...

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

Leucothea (1862), by Jean Jules Allasseur. South façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre Palace, Paris.

Athamas Taken by the Furies, painting by Arcangelo Michele Migliarini, 1801. Accademia di San Luca, Rome.

Mosaic fragment: Ino (Dotô), discovered in a Roman villa in Saint-Rustice in 1833, 4th or 5th century, Saint-Raymon Museum, Toulouse.

Death of a French colonel during the Battle of Günzburg (9 October 1805), part of Napoleon's Ulm Campaign (25 September to 20 October 1805), by Georges Moreau de Tours, 1901.

Austrian General Karl Mack von Leiberich surrenders to French Emperor Napoleon I after the Ulm Campaign (25 September to 20 October 1805). Print by Bousson, Valadon, Paris, after E. Boutigny from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William M...

Portrait of Michel Ney (1769-1815), a French marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). After distinguishing himself in the War of the First Coalition, Ney rose through the ranks and was appointed as one of the original...