History (560 Subjects)
A scene from Marcian's military campaign. The eagle is a symbol of the emperor's coronation (Marcian was the first Byzantine emperor to be crowned by the Patriarch) and of the Orthodox believers's victory over Monophysitism (Council of Chalcedon).
Greece and Asia Minor in the era of the Trojan War, according to the anonymous works traditionally attibuted to Dictys Cretensis (“Dictys Cretensis Ephemeridos belli Trojani”) and Dares Phrygius (“De excidio Trojae historia”).