11-02-2007, 11:03 AM
Quote:.although in the book that the plate is in, the writer says it is based on a wallpainting from some Macedonian grave.
...see macedonian tomb of 'Lyson and Kallikles'..... see e.g.
www.culture.gr/h/2/eh251.jsp?obj_id=879 - 7k and also
www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMace ... _D14i.html
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff