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Alexander the Great

The Alexander Mosaic (detail),c.100 BCE, marble mosaic, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

The Alexander Mosaic is a late second century floor mosaic from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. It is generally accepted that it is a copy of an earlier Greek painting from the fourth century. Installed in the entryway of a private house, the mosaic displayed the social prestige of the owner in Pompeian society.

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A Macedonian (Greek) general who conquered the Persians and ruled over a vast empire, from Greece to the Indus River, in the 330s B.C.E.

of or relating to Moses or the writings attributed to him.

of or relating to Moses or the writings attributed to him.

A city in southern Italy that was destroyed by ash and debris from the eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E.

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