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The infant Dionysis is portrayed in a fourth-century B.C. statue by Praxiteles from the Temple of Hera at Olympia.

1822 drawing of traditional boats from Hawaii, then known to Europeans and Americans as the “Sandwich Islands.” Both drawings by Ludwig Choris (1795-1828).

This 1822 drawing shows traditional rowing boats used by the people of the Ratak islands, a chain within the present-day nation of the Marshall Islands.

A portrait of Cleopatra emphasizes her Egyptian headdress. Though the Ptolemaic dynasty descended from a Macedonian general of Alexander the Great—and practiced inbreeding to preserve their bloodline—Cleopatra framed herself as the reincarnation of the Egyptian goddess Isis.