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title: MASSINISSA AND SOFONISBA

subject date: 2017-04-01

caption: ANCIENT ROME "While Massinissa, an ally of the Romans and the victor over Syphax, enters the palace of Sophonisba, his heart is enslaved by her charms. Instead, he chooses her as his consort, intending to enslave her to the Romans." Massinissa (240 BC - 148 BC) was a Berber ruler, the first king of unified Numidia, an ally of the Romans; Sophonisba (? - 203 BC), a Carthaginian noble, daughter of Hasdrubal Gisco and wife of the elderly king of the Numidians, Syphax, had married the latter to strengthen the alliance with the Carthaginians against the Romans. After her husband's defeat in the Battle of the Campi Magni, Massinissa went to capture her, but fell in love with her, who reciprocated his love, and married her. Since Scipio wanted to send her prisoner to Rome, fearing, not entirely unfoundedly, that she might incite her new husband against the empire, he sent his wife a cup of poison to spare her the humiliation of being held in chains. Sophonisba drank the tragic wedding gift, preferring death rather than life as a Roman slave. Illustrated plate no. 19 from ''Roman History'' by Charles Rollin (January 30, 1661 – September 14, 1741), ''engraved in copperplate by the eminent Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano (November 20, 1781 – April 1, 1835), and engraved by Raffaele Persichini''. Rome, 1833.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Tunisia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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continent: Africa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: III a.C.

subject epoch: Antica Roma

technique: Incisione

id: 39971

file name: FSNgilardi_71442.jpg

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