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Relief of a Scythian warrior with an axe, bow, and spear, 4th-2nd century BCE. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Artist's impression of a 7th-6th-century BCE Scythian warrior.

A 1642 painting by William Dobson of the future Charles II of England (r. 1660-1685 CE). (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh)

A c. 1683 painting by John Riley of Charles II of England (r. 1660-1685 CE) wearing armour and with the new British Crown Jewels. (The Weiss Gallery)

Banquet of Thyestes, fresco by Orlando Parentini, between 1559 and 1565. Room XX of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Vatican City Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT

Roman terracotta plaque depicting Pelops and Hippodamia, 27 BCE to 68 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This infographic illustrates the royal lineage of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled Egypt during the Hellenistic period (305–30 BCE). Founded by Ptolemy I Soter, a companion of Alexander the Great, the dynasty is notable for elevating royal...

Part of the Strasbourg Fragment of Empedocles (Physika I 262–300), rediscovered in 1990, translated and published in 1999. National University Library of Strasbourg.

Diagram of Empedocles' cosmic cycle showing the relationship between love and strife in the operation of the universe.

Image of the Greek Pre-Socratic Philosopher Empedocles from The History of Philosophy by Sir Thomas Stanley, 1655.