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Description: | Sophinisba was a Carthaginian noblewoman of the third century BCE. According to Livy and other classical authors, Sophinisba killed herself by drinking from a poison chalice, provided by her husband Masinissa, rather than be paraded through Rome as a trophy. With parallels to the death of Lucretia and those of other heroic female suicides, Sophinisba chose death as an alternative to public humiliation. This work is one of a group of five paintings by Van Der Myn depicting exemplary scenes of female love and chastity from classical mythology and the Bible. | Subjects: | mythology (Sophonisba) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Myn, Herman van der (Dutch painter, 1684-1741) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8653... | Go to resource |
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