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Born September 10, 1835 • Connecticut
Died November 5, 1909 (aged 74) • Providence • Rhode Island

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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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