A scorned woman and righteous warrior. It could be Bellerophon and Sthenoboea, wife of Proetus, or Peleus and Astydameia, wife of King Acastus of Iolcus. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.

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