If any are suspected by the tyrant of having notions of freedom, and of resistance to his authority, he will have a good pretext for destroying them by placing them at the mercy of the enemy. Plato. The Republic. Book 8.
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Children Watching A Cockfight Greek Amisos Asia Minor 2nd - 1st century BCE Terracotta - Photographed at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
Made in ancient Amisos (present-day Samsun) along the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor, the relief is a rare example of a multi-figured terracotta group and may well have been inspired by a work in another medium. The child on the right mimics the pose of the famous statue of the Weary Heracles (in the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy).
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