Hippocrate refusant les présents d'Artaxerxès

Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes is a 1792 history painting by the French artist Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. It depicts a scene on the island of Kos in Ancient Greece. The Persian Emperor Artaxerxes I, at war with the Greeks, demanded that the celebrated physician Hippocrates, heal his armies who were suffering from the plague. In a gesture of patriotism he refuses all the rewards offered to him, saying that he will accept nothing to aid the enemy while his own people are on danger.

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