The deaths of Demosthenes and Themistocles, Cleopatra’s experimental toxicology, and Tristan and Isolde – was it poison or a love potion?
Danger
The Prix de Rome changed in the 19th century. Its subjects became more obscure, and its successes few and far between.
The general who saved the Greeks from invasion by Xerxes’ Persians, mainly in the major naval battle of Salamis. But he was later banished, accused of treason.
The Eclectic Light Company 