Pack 490. Pack of two Ancient Greek history military prints by Chris Collingwood and Brian Palmer.
PCK0490. Pack of two Greek military history art prints by Chris Collingwood and Brian Palmer, depicting Greek Spartans and Hoplites, and the Battle of Marathon. Military Print Pack.
Items in this pack : Item #1 - Click to view individual item DHM1243. Thermopylae 480BC, Spartan and Thespaian Hoplites. By Chris Collingwood. So Tell The Spartans, Stranger passing by that here, Obedient to their laws, we lie. In 480 BC the Spartans tried to defend the pass at Thermopylae against the Persians led by Xerxes. The Persian fleet had sailed along the coastline from northern Greece into the Gulf of Malia on the eastern Aegean Sea towards the mountains at Thermopylae. The Greek General and King Leonidas led the Greeks and tried to defend the pass of Thermopylae. All the defending Spartans were killed during the Battle of Thermopylae. Their defence and courage provided inspiration to the Greeks, and the following year the Greeks won battles against their old enemy the Persians. Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 25 inches x 16 inches (64cm x 41cm)
Item #2 - Click to view individual item DHM1131. Battle of Marathon by Brian Palmer. The Battle of Marathon 490 BC during the Persian Greek Wars. King Darious I of Persia sent his son in law Mardonius to invade Greece in 492 BC. The Persian Forces conquered Thrace and Macedonia before their fleet was devastated by a storm. Mardonia was forced to return to Asia. A second Persian invasion force crossed the Aegean sea. After conquering Eretria, the Persian Army under Datis (15,000 strong) landed near Marathon. (Marathon is 24 miles northeast of Athens.) General Miltiades, general in the Greek army gathered a force of 10,000 Athenians and 1,000 Plataean citizen Soldiers. Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 24 inches x 14 inches (61cm x 36cm)
Website Price: £ 140.00
To purchase these prints individually at their normal retail price would cost £250.00 . By buying them together in this special pack, you save £110
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