Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 100 copies
A pencil drawing of a modern reconstruction of the golden lion head helmet of Alexander the Great, as depicted on the Alexander Sarcophagus from Sidon, Lebanon.
When Alexander the Great became king (336 BC), he issued coins that portrayed himself as the Hercules wearing the lion’s skin as a helmet.
By Alexander’s time, Hercules was revered as the greatest of all the Greek heroes. He was depicted as a “youthful, unbearded god who wears a lion-skin on his back and has the lion’s paws knotted on his chest. He tends to carry a club, not a bow, and to have one arm raised” (Fox, 194).
The legends of his exploits placed him at a variety of locations stretching to the eastern and western fringes of the known world.
