'Death of Pausanias', 1890. Creator: Unknown.

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'Death of Pausanias', 1890. Pausanias, Spartan regent and general suspected of conspiring with Xerxes I during the Greco-Persian Wars, on arrest he escaped to the temple of Athena, was held siege and died of starvation. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

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Size: 5538px × 3748px
Location: World,Europe,Greece,World,Europe,Greece,Periféreia Protevoúsis,Athens
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