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| Nero time: Christians - "Faithful Unto Death" - waiting execution |
This picture is
a depiction of Nero watching a Christian woman killed in a re-enactment of
the Greek myth of Dirce, who was killed by being tied to the horns of a
bull.
In the First Epistle Clement to the Corinthians, Clement
refers to Christian women martyred for their faith as Dircae: “Through
envy, those women, the Danaids and Dircae, being persecuted, after they had
suffered terrible and unspeakable torments, finished the course of their faith
with steadfastness, and though weak in body, received a noble reward."
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