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Digimon Tamers is my favorite Digimon anime series, bar none. Here's a drawing I did of the main protags

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Castello Di Conegliano

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Good hunting and hunter 😊

Just in time for spooky time. Hircine is back. Lurking in the darkest parts of the Woods, stalking their prey is the hunter. Mostly hidden from mortal eyes, his children prowl the fringes of civilisation and praise his name with every kill, be it Venison, Man or Mer. Seldom the great Stag goes out of his way to hunt a lowly Mortal but unfortunately you got his attention....

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It’s better like gothic warrior

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Indo-Greek

The first Indo-Greek kingdom appeared circa 190 BCE may when the Greco-Bactrian king or (general for his father) Demetrios was busy in India, when his Indian possessions were divided between several kings, probably firstly in order to better govern them but then due to civil war. The term “Indo-Greek” is generally used because these kingdoms were almost always separated from Bactria and thus differed politically from the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.

These kingdoms, in which there were already some Greek settlers called Yonas, took more and more Indian characteristics, becoming truly unique political entities with a mix of Greek and Indian culture, at least for the ruling elites. Indo-Greek kingdoms timeline is very approximate. Between 190 BCE and circa 165 BCE, Greek possessions in India were divided between several Euthydemid kings which fought among themselves and their Greco-Bactrian neighbors. These kingdoms extended to Western Punjab and had Indians of Sunga dynasty as neighbors.

Circa 165 BCE the Greco-Bactrian rebel Eucratides invaded the Indo-Greek kingdoms and, defeating Antimachos II, succeeded to take control of most of the Indo-Greek possessions. Unluckily for him, Menander, his last Euthydemid enemy, pushed him back to Bactria circa 155 BCE. Thus the Indo-Greek kingdoms were safely under Euthydemid rule for the next 25 years. In this time Menander extended Greek rule as far as Paliputra (today Patna, in northeast India), but fell in a civil war.

However circa 130 BCE, the Euthydemid kings were chased away from Bactria by the Yuezhei and settled down in strength in the Indo-Greek territories. From 130 BCE to 80 BCE, numerous Indo-Greek kings ruled in India, often in little kingdoms, fighting among each other, while Arachosia was lost to the Sakas. Some kings seem to have nearly succeeded to reunite these areas, like Eucratids Philoxenos and Diomedes, but finally failed. One Euthydemid queen, Agathokleia, made a strong regency for her son Strato in this time too. Yet at the turn of the century the Indo-Greek regions were highly fragmented.

The disruptive element came circa 80 BCE, when the Saka king Maues attacked the Indo-Greek kingdoms. He won against several Euthydemid and Eucratid kings, taking the Paropamisadae, Gandhara and Western Punjab. Against this invader, the both dynasties forged an alliance under the rule of Amyntas, whose resistance in eastern Punjab saved Indo-Greek kingdoms, and by circa 65 BCE the Indo-Greek kings regained their kingdoms and their rivalry.

The final moments of Indo-Greek history are written in civil wars once more, with the quick loss of all the Western possessions to the Indo-Saka kings. The last Indo-Greek king Strato II ended his rule circa 10 BCE, vanquished by the Indo-Saka king Rajuvula.

The Indo-Greek kings and kingdoms are absent in the Greek imagination, because of the estrangement from the Greek world and the cut of political links due to Parthian and Sakas presence between India and Greece. However these kingdoms appear to have strongly influenced their Indian subject and Indian or nomad neighbors, as the nature of Indian art from the period, as well as the mention of the Yonas in Asoka’s edicts suggest.

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Chapter Illustration for 12. Remember, remember from my fanficion Loss

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Autumn Starting from Kuwayama Jinja (in Kameoka) 亀岡でも早く色づく鍬山神社の紅葉。 数日前に撮影したのにもう随分前のような感覚が。 ちょいと一杯呑んだ、今の気分で数点選んでみましたよっと🍶 📍 #亀岡 #鍬山神社 📸 #XH1 #XF1655 https://www.instagram.com/p/CHz_AceA_xU/?igshid=1f8xe9i0846yu

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The first story beginning

A comic page for a scene from my fanfiction Loss

(sadly, I apparently didn’t read my own writing closely enough - Agumon should actually be Koromon still…)

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The stolen Ancient Greek masterpiece from the sculptor Lysippos :

The horse sculptures come from the island of Chios ( the fifth largest of the Greek islands), since four horses and a quadriga (a type of chariot that was also used in the Ancient Olympic Games) was mentioned in the Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai, more commonly called “brief Historical Notes”text dated from the 8th o 9th century. The horses stayed there until 1204, when they were looted by Venetian forces as part of the sack of the capital of the Byzantine Empire in the Fourth Crusade. Interestingly, the collars on the horses necks that you can see in the photos below were added about this time to cover the areas that their necks and heads had been removed to allow then to be transported from Constantinople to Venice.

Soon after the Fourth Crusade, Doge Enrico Dandolo (Doge meaning a civil officer or lay judge in Venice or Genoa) sent the horses to Venice, where they were installed on the terrace of the façade of St. Mark’s Basilica in 1254.

In 1797, Napoleon had the horses forcibly removed from the basilica and carried off to Paris, where they were used in the design of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel together with a quadriga.

In 1815 the horses were returned to Venice by Captain Dumaresq, who had fought at the Battle of Waterloo and along with the allied forces in Paris. He was selected, by the Emperor of Austria, to take the horses down from the Arc de Triomphe and return them to their original place at St Mark’s in Venice. For doing an excellent job bringing the horses back to Venice, the Emperor gave him a gold snuff box with his initials in diamonds on the lid.

Until the early 1980s, the horses remained untouched over St. Marks. But with growing air pollution that would make the statues deteriorate quicker, they were removed and brought in side St. Marks and can still be seen inside the basilia. They were replaced with exact copies that can be seen outside.

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#archeology #archeologist #archeologicalsite #castle #history #historyfacts #historynerd #historybuff #austria #waterloo #philosopher #venice #basilica #paris #byzantine

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Foggy sunset

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the palaces of bucoleon going rebuilt , but they more in YouTube

A new work from me!

Panoramic illustration of Constantinople in late 10th/early 11th century. For a nonfiction book.

Medium: Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, Wacom Intuos.

Client: Noordhoff

A little What's What of various elements:

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[Video - Norwich HEMA Society]

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look like axe man of byzantine

Back on duty at Sunshine Castle! School excursion today. Be sure to book your school before the end of term 3 to secure a spot for term 4. #medieval #school #excursion #sunshinecoast https://www.instagram.com/p/CiGpghrhTk7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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tailleferlivinghistory

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Claire-Ophélie Photographie - Feste médiévale Saint-Marcellin 2019