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Companions,it seems that once again, Alexander charges across the House of the Faun:http://www.archaeology.org/0601/abstracts/mosaic.html

That looks fantastic, doesn't it. If only I could have a floor like that put into my flat ...M

One of the most remarkable and dramatic works of antiquity, as impressive now as when it was created. Yes, it would be interesting to have a replica at home! I have played with the idea of making one, in a scale more appropriate to my abilities of course. My motivation for this is partly a desire to fill in the blanks, to replace the missing parts destroyed in the disaster that saved the remainder, but de-sanitise them. Look around the field; we see no broken weapons, no pools of blood, no body parts. Even the Persian trooper with Alexander's lance through him doesn't rate a shriek or a grimace. I would bring the full story of ancient war to the mosaic. But never having made a mosaic before, I might start with a simple portrait of Alexander