"[H]e felt that he had never seen a sight more fearful." Plutarch, The Life of Aemilius, 19. The phalangites in the midst of my Seleucid 15mm army. On the far left, you can see the comrades from the elite Argyraspides ("Silver Shields"). #dbmm #seleucids #15mm #wargaming

Greek Gods and the “Wheel of the Law” or Dharmachakra: Left: Zeus holding Nike, who hands a victory wreath over a Dharmachakra (coin of Menander II). Right: Divinity wearing chlamys and petasus pushing a Dharmachakra, with legend “He who sets in motion the Wheel of the Law” (Tillya Tepe Buddhist coin). Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: CC BY-SA 3.0)

#Hellenistic contact with the #Indian subcontinent (#AlexanderTheGreat, #Seleucids, #GrecoBactrians, #IndoGreeks) produced sustained political, artistic and #philosophical exchange. In #Gandhāra this yielded #GrecoBuddhist art and the #anthropomorphic #Buddha […]

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I always mount my figures on film canisters for painting to ensure good handling during the process. Here is my Seleucid (bsky.app/profile/jens...) phalanx, which was quite an effort because it involved nearly 100 figures! The figures are 15mm from Essex. #phalangites #seleucids #15mm #wargaming

Here are a small selection of the units that I've completed for ProjectSeleukid - a joint painting project with my good friend Andrew inspired by the Seleukid order of battle at Magnesia (190 BC).

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