# 491 BC - 1902 AD - A Long Time Between Drinks

- By: Samuel D. Ehrhart
- Date: 1902-12-31
- Classification: Drawing
- Credit line: Puck, 31 December 1902, Library of Congress
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:491_BC_-_1902_AD_-_A_Long_Time_Between_Drinks.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/491_BC_-_1902_AD_-_A_Long_Time_Between_Drinks.jpg/1920px-491_BC_-_1902_AD_-_A_Long_Time_Between_Drinks.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Humoristic cartoon from Puck on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Greece and Persia. In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations. This of course ignores a long history of Greco-Persian interactions thereafter throughout Antiquity, not least the Peace of Antalcidas, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Seleucid Empire, or even the long history of the Byzantine-Persian wars.