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Suicide of a Gaul
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Suicide of a Gaul</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name="description" content="Statue of the Suicide of a Gaul, from the victory monument of Attalus"> <META name="author" content="Andrew Smith"> <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="styles.css"> <BODY CLASS="bground"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER> <TR> <TD VALIGN=BOTTOM> <DIV ALIGN="CENTER"> <B> SUICIDE OF A GAUL <FONT CLASS="green">(PALAZZO ALTEMPS, ROME)</FONT> </B> </DIV> <BR> This is a Roman copy of one of the statues from the victory monument erected by <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attalus_I">Attalus I</A> at <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon">Pergamum</A> soon after 230 B.C., in commemoration of a series of victories which he had won over the Gauls who had invaded Asia Minor. It depicts one of the chieftains of the Gauls in the act of committing suicide, while supporting the body of his dying wife. It is sometimes called the Ludovisi Gaul, because it was formerly in the Villa Ludovisi at Rome. <BR> <BR> ← <A HREF="index.html">Attalus' home page</A> <TD> <TD> <IMG SRC="suicide.jpg" WIDTH=394 HEIGHT=550 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="The Suicide of a Gaul (Ludovisi Gaul)" TITLE="The Suicide of a Gaul (Ludovisi Gaul)"> </TR> </TABLE> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-3599544-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> </BODY> </HTML>