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... > Classical Mythology and Ancient History > classical history > female persons from classical history > female persons from classical history (with NAME) > (story of) the wife of Hasdrubal > suffering, misfortune of Hasdrubal's wife > death of Hasdrubal's wife: she throws herself and her two children into the flames of the temple of Aesculapius, which she had set on fire, to show her contempt at her husband's surrender to Scipio

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98C(HASDRUBAL'S WIFE)68death of Hasdrubal's wife: she throws herself and her two children into the flames of the temple of Aesculapius, which she had set on fire, to show her contempt at her husband's surrender to Scipio  

Subject

  • Aesculapius
  • ancient history
  • burning alive
  • child
  • classical antiquity
  • classical history
  • Greeks
  • Hasdrubal's wife
  • historical person
  • history
  • identity
  • jumping
  • mother
  • mother and child
  • mythology
  • name
  • Romans
  • suicide
  • temple
  • woman

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  • 98C(HASDRUBAL'S WIFE)68

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http://iconclass.org/98C%28HASDRUBAL%27S+WIFE%2968

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