Person

Name: Catone

Alternate Names:

Nature: historical

Gender: male

Birth Date: 95 BCE

Death Date: 46 BCE

Description: A distinguished Roman statesmen renowned for his moral rectitude, Cato killed himself after he was defeated in the civil war along with Pompey, preferring to die a free man rather than to subject himself to Julius Caesar.

Associated Location: Roma

Images:

Botticelli, Sandro

Botticelli, Island plain

Doré, Gustave

Doré, Cato

Flaxman, John

Flaxman, Cato

Vellutello, Alessandro (commissioner)

Vellutello, Purgatory shore