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Figure: Cleopatra and Her Egypt
Image 1 Caption: A possible posthumous, maybe imaginative portrait painting of Cleopatra VII (69--30 BCE) of Ptolemaic Egypt from ancient Roman Herculaneum made during the 1st century CE before the destruction of Herculaneum by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE. Location: National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Naples, Italy.
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My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then!
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---Cleopatra as imagined
in Antony and Cleopatra, 1607,
Act I, scene 5, near end,
William Shakespeare (1564--1616).
Image 2 Caption: Portrait of the Terentius Neo and his wife probably from reign of Nero (37--68 CE, reigned 54--68 CE) or the reign of Vespesian (9--79 CE, regined 69--79 CE).
As in The Last Days of Pompeii (1834).
Pompeii and Herculaneum were both destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE which happened after Oct17 and maybe Oct24. The long-accepted date of Aug24 has been ruled out. See Wikipedia: Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE: Date of the eruption and BBC: Pompeii: Vesuvius eruption may have been later than thought, 2018.
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