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First published 1969
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meditating the murder of her children, is taken from
Désiré Raoul-Rochette, Choix de Peintures de Pompéi,
1867. It is a reproduction of a painting on the wall
of the atrium of the building known as the House of
Castor and Pollux in Pompeii, which was excavated
in 1828-9.

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