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ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Plato. Roman copy (from the reign of Tiberius) of a portrait statue made in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. (Munich, Glyptothek). 4 2. Detail (Alexander) of a battle between Alexander the Great and Darius. Pompei, House of the Faun; probably based on an original by Philoxenus of Eritrea. 7 3. Socrates. Copy of a Hellenistic bust (Rome, Villa Albani). 8 4. Aristotle. Roman copy based on a fourth-century B.C.E. statue (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum). 9 5. Detail (Plato and Aristotle) from Raphael, The School of Athens (Rome, Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura). 120 6. Aristotle (Portal Royal of Chartres Cathedral, twelfth century). 194 7. Aristotle at his lectern; MS of the writings on natural sciences, Rome 1457 (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. phil. gr. 64). 197 xi ...

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