B Detail showing the basilisk

FIGURE 13 Alexander the Great as Conqueror. (Harley 3469, by permission of the British Library) A. Bas-relief at the base of Plate 1-4, center. B. Detail, showing the basilisk. 

Just when the Greek intellectual achievement had reached its climax during the fourth century 

Alexander the Great swept down from Macedonia through Greece and onward to 

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