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Perseus Nikator: Oath to an Empire

Chapter 90: Image catalogue

Notes:

This is not a chapter, but an overview of all the reference images I use, useful to spark your imagination if you don't know what I am talking about. These images are placed in the order they become relevant to the story.

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Cover art

Cover art

Map of greece and anatolia

Map of greece and western Anatolia

Map of the Prespa region, don't mind the location of Pelium, I changed my mind which option I use.

Map of the Prespa region, don't mind the location of Pelium, I changed my mind which option I use.

Hetairos, though a bit modern for chapter 4; it was under Alexander's reign that this kind of helmet became popular.

Hetairos, though a bit modern for chapter 4; it was under Alexander's reign that this kind of helmet became popular.

Pezhetairoi

Pezhetairoi

Peltast

Peltast

 

Crown and larnax of Philip II

Crown and larnax of Philip II, although I think I read somewhere that they might actually belong to Philip III.

 

Helmet of Alexander the Great with red plume and two white feathers.

 

Hypaspists in Total war - looks like a pretty good representation still.

 

Map of Thebes with details of Alexander's attack. For clarity, it's not one of my own maps.

 

Prodromoi with their long lance ready, rather than the javelins.

 

Thessalian cavalry - though the cloak should be purple.

 

The heavy Median and Parthian cavalry as I imagine it.

 

The regular Persian cavalry.

 

Percy's Phrygian helmet - imagine a hippocampus though, instead of the lions or whatever those animals on the forehead are supposed to be.

 

War elephants as they might have been used by Darius

 

Ishtar gates of Babylon, between the two palace complexes around the northern inner wall. Yes, this gate is on the cover of the book.

Alexanders triumphal parade through Babylon

 

Map of Babylon at the time of Alexander conquering it, 331 BC.

 

Map of the Macedonian Empire in 323 BC, at the time of the division.

For clarity, I only own the maps I made, the cover art has been made for me, but all the others, I just plucked from the internet.