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Trojans on Crete struck by the plague
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The Trojans in Crete struck by the plague. In the foreground dying people on the street next to a statue. To the left a man with a torch near dead animals. In a house a dying man with two women at his sickbed. According to the story of Virgil in the third book of the Aeneid.
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Credit lineTrojanen op Kreta door de pest getroffen. 1544 - 1556. Cornelis Massijs. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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