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Marcus Curtius sacrificing himself after an earthquake

Roman centurion Marcus Curtius sacrificing himself on horseback by jumping into a chasm near the Forum after an earthquake in Rome, 362 BC. Devouement volontaire de Curtius. Copperplate engraving after a design by Benjamin Samuel Bolomey from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe's Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot's Abrege de l'Histoire Romaine

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14017539

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45945761

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4918px x 6439px (11.1MB)

Credit

©Florilegius/Mary Evans

Source

Benjamin Samuel Bolomey

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