#darius iii

[paintingsandhistory]

Family of Darius before Alexander the Great

Artist: Antonio de Pereda y Salgado (Spanish, c. 1611-1678)

Date: 1649

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Biblioteca Museu Victor Balaguer, Barcelona, Spain

Description

Painting depicts the moment when the mother of Darius III Sisygambis and this woman, Statira, prostrate at the feet of Alexandro, who won the battle of Issos (Anatolia, 333 BC).

[monaluisa]

Me when a random-ass 25 year old from buttfuck nowhere destroys my army three separate times and kidnaps my family and possibly impregnates my wife and my mom lowkey likes him better than me and my men are about to kill me and i lowkey do not give a shit anymore because my life is already going so comically bad

[dariomekler]

Persepolis

by Darío Mekler

Ceremonial capital of the achaemenid kings.

Darius the great presides over the city. An architectural knot of hypostyle halls and structures. The sacred fires of Ahura Mazda fueled it and the vengeful fires of Alexander burned it to the ground.

Trough the southeast an infinite procession of offerings from every satrapy of the empire feeds its heart. At the southwest Alexander advances while in pursuit of Darius III, the last of the achaemenid kings

At the northwest Xerxes leads its army of immortals to attempt to conquer the greeks. The other kings hold the city´s back standing over their own monumental tombs at Naqsh I-Rustam.

Part of my series of ancient, mythical anthropomorphic cities. Spiritus Urbium. Pencil drawing and digital coloring. Some sketches in the rest of the slide.

Animated versions of other cities: https://www.dariomekler.com.ar/cities-and-ideas

[aaronkraten]

Metal Black Ost

19th Moon Art

[psycosispunpun]

Alexander the Great of Macedon and his forces encounter Darius III of Persia, betrayed and left to die by his own ally(s) in the year 330 B.C., marking the end to the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

“Here, Darius was assassinated by Bessus, the satrap of Bactria. He was discovered by Alexander in a dying condition by the roadside. He asked for a cup of water, thanked the giver, and died. And with him died the Empire of the Persians."

—Ridpath, 1885

[fateservantsirl]

Darius III at Mister Ed's Elephant Museum and Candy Emporium in  Orrtanna, Pennsylvania

[thegoodthegrandandtheugly]

[nero-draco]