ELD4897814: Ostracism in Ancient Greece: “” Aristide and the Peasant”” An illiterate peasant who does not recognize the Athenian statesman Aristide the Just (530-467 BC), strikes with ostracism, asks him to write his name for himself on a chess, 483 BC Engraving after the painting by Eugene Ernest Hillemacher (O18-1887) (Stracism during the athenian democracy: the athenian stateman Aristides (530 BC - 468 BC) is asked by an illiterate voter, who did not know him, to write upon his ostrakon (voting shard) the name of Aristides (Aristeides) engraving after Hillemacher) Engraving from “” Les grandes infortunes”” by Changer and Spont, 19th century Private collection / Bridgeman Images
ELD4876799: Ancient Rome: the suicide of Roman Emperor Gordian I (158-238) (Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Romanus Africanus) announced the death of his son in 238” (Ancient rome: the death of roman emperor Gordian I, 238) Engraving from “” The Roman Imperresses” 1888 Private collection / Bridgeman Images
ELD4959295: Nordic mythology: the semi-legendary king of Sweden and Denmark Ragnar Lodbrok (Lodbrog, Regnard Lodbrog or Ragnar Lothbrock) and Aslaug (Aslog, Kraka, Kraba or Randalin) around 750-850 Norse mythology: king Ragnar Lodbrok meets Kraka (Aslaug) -Germanische Gotter und Helden” by Wilhelm wagner 1901 / Bridgeman Images