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Cato the Younger
Image by Carole Raddato

Cato the Younger

A portrait of Cato the Younger (95 BCE - 46 BCE), a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the Younger
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Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the Younger

A 16th century CE painting by Hans Holbein the Younger of Thomas Cromwell (l. c. 1485-1540 CE) who served as Chancellor to Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE). (The Frick Collection, New York)
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger
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The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1533 CE. The skull in the foreground is an example of anamorphosis - distorting an image so that it can only be seen clearly from one angle. (National Gallery, London)
Dance of Death by Hans Holbein the Younger
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Dance of Death by Hans Holbein the Younger

A scene showing an Abbot and Death from the Dance of Death series of woodprints by Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543 CE). c. 1525 CE.
Portrait of Hans Holbein the Younger
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Portrait of Hans Holbein the Younger

A c. 1543 CE self-portrait by the German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543 CE). (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Faustina the Younger
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Faustina the Younger

Empress Faustina the Younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius, 161 – 175 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
William Pitt the Younger
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William Pitt the Younger

William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), who served as prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, at which point he became the first prime minister of the United Kingdom until he left office in 1801. He returned...
Pliny the Younger's Epistulae and Panegyricus
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Pliny the Younger's Epistulae and Panegyricus

C. Plinii Cæcilii Secvndi Epistolæ et Panegyricus, 1653 CE
Medes
Definition by Nathalie Choubineh

Medes

The Medes or Medians were a group of Indo-Iranian-speaking people from central Asia who migrated westwards and entered northern Iran around the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. They settled in the highlands of Zagros (Zagreus in Greek) and...
Polycrates
Definition by Athanasios Fountoukis

Polycrates

Polycrates (r. c. 535-522 BCE) was the tyrant of Samos who established Samian naval supremacy in the eastern Aegean and strove for control of the Aegean Sea and mainland towns of Ionia in the 6th century BCE. Polycrates had a successful career...
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