File:Sisoes-b4-tomb-of-alexander metora.jpg
Summary
Astonishment of Sisoes the Great, Monastery at Meteora, ca.16th century.
The inscription found on these icons explains the scene:
Sisoes, the great ascetic, before the tomb of Alexander, King of the Greeks, who was once covered in glory. Astonished, he mourns for the vicissitudes of time and the transience of glory, and tearfully declaims thus:
“The mere sight of you, tomb, dismays me and causes my heart to shed tears, as I contemplate the debt we, all men, owe. How can I possibly stand it? Oh, death! Who can evade you?”
It is, therefore, a Greek memento mori (Latin: “Remember your mortality”), made more powerful by showing one of the greatest rulers in history – who conquered half the known-world – as a pile of bones. As an unknown quote declares of Alexander: “A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”
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Source:
http://iconreader.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/the-astonishment-of-sisoes-contemplating-death/
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