CHAPTER XL

. THE HOUSE OF THE TRAGIC POET

_Excavation_ (1824-1825), _plan, decoration_: FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 2, pp. 116-135; GELL, Pompeiana (Edit. of 1832), vol. 1, pp. 142-178; NICCOLINI, le case ed i monumenti di Pompei, vol. 1; OVERBECK-MAU, Pompeji, pp. 285-289.

_Paintings_: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, see p. LXXXVI. and Topogr. Index under =Casa del poeta=, p. 471; also HELBIG, Le nozze di Giove e di Giunone, Ann. dell' Inst., vol. 36 (1864), pp. 270-282.

_The Iphigenia of Timanthes_ [p. 319]; Cic. Orator, XXII. 74; Plin. N. H. XXXV. X. 73; Quint. Inst. orat. II. XIII. 12, 13; Valer. Max. VIII. XI. ext. 6, with the comment of LESSING in the Laokoon, chap. 2, and the references given by BLUeMNER, Lessing's Laokoon (Berlin, 1876), pp. 36-37; cf. also BAUMEISTER, Denkmaeler des klassischen Altertums (3 vols., Munich, 1884-1888), vol. 1, pp. 754-757, and JEX-BLAKE and SELLERS, The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art (London, 1896), pp. 116-117, note 2.

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