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    Pallas Athena and the Centaur
    A Civilizing Force.
    Pallas Athena, the chaste Goddess of wisdom and patron of the arts, holds 
    a guard's halberd and has captured a centaur - a symbol of lust and aggression.
    Painted by Botticelli (1482)
    Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi

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