I painted this cover for jpgaltmiller's graphic novel POLIS: The Trial of Socrates
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This comic kicks ass, check it out. If you haven't read up on Socrates, here's your chance to learn something about him, with some cool graphic violence and action thrown in. :)
Those guys fighting were called hoplites, they're obviously all Greeks, but from different city-states. In this case I think it was Sparta (with the Lambda letter for Laconia on the shield), although depending on the time period and which sources to believe, shields could have been blank, or even personalized. Athenian shields were personalized, I think.
Of course in the background you see the hill Acropolis, with several temples, the most famous one Parthenon on the right.
You might also want to check out jpgaltmiller's other comic, Lesbian Zombies From Outer Space:
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Here's the original sketch:
And here's an alternate version that wasn't used:
Thanks for watching!
Links to some of my other art:
