A Tribute to Philip & Alexander The Great
The battle which finally broke the Persian power fought at the Issus and at Guagamela on the northern Tigris in 333B.C. They are celebrated in the famous mosaic from Pompeii, a Roman copy of a Greek painting, from which this detail above is taken. Alexander, his eyes avid for victory, spurs his horse forward; Darius, panic-stricken, takes the fatal decision to flee; a great dynasty is destroyed, and the way is open for expansion of the western civilzation to the edge.