✖ Via Emblemas morales by Don Sebastian de Couarrubias Orozco, centuria II, emblem 55 (155), 1610
Herostratos torching the temple of Artemis. Learn more on Wikipedia and by reading Albert Borowitz’s essay Terrorism for Self-Glorification. The Herostratos Syndrome. More on that later.
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