Pompeian painting

Contains much that is clearly humorous and much that appeals directly to the senses. It also leads very quickly to inconsistencies: to fit his theories Schefold has to argue that Medea is now contrasted with Penelope as a paradigm of false love, now compared with her as a beatified heroine. From the House of Jason, or of the Fatal Loves (first quarter of first century A.D.). (Boardman, 1986)