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Detail from School of Athens by Raphael
Pericles
La Hire, Laurent de: Rhetoric
Plato conversing with his pupils
Grote, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Everett Millais, 1870; in the Senate House, University of London
Hadrian
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Antiphon
Greek writer and statesman
Herodes Atticus, marble bust by an unknown artist; in the Louvre, Paris
Herodes Atticus
Greek orator and author
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Alcidamas
Greek writer
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Gorgias of Leontini
Greek Sophist