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Mithridates Escapes Pompey

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In 66 BC, Mithridates VI of Pontus — Rome's most persistent enemy — broke through Pompey's lines at midnight with 800 horsemen and fled into the darkness. He crossed Colchis, passed through the Caucasus, and disappeared into the borderlands between the known world and the unknown north. I painted this in Tbilisi in 2008 — the year Russia invaded Georgia. The Caucasus was once again what it has always been: a borderland, a zone of conflict, a place where empires chase each other through the mountains. The figure is naked. He has nothing left but his life and his speed. He escapes with his body alone. Oil on canvas, 180 x 130 cm. Original painting: 1/1, Tbilisi 2008. This NFT is a digital edition of 3. By Heiner Buhr — Berlin-born expressionist painter based in Tbilisi, Georgia since 1996. Tags:

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