Intentional killing or other violent deaths of a relative

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Death mask of Martin, a parricide. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Tullia running over her father Servius Tullius in her chariot. Etching by J. Le Pautre.

Aegisthus discovering the body of Clytaemnestra. Colour mezzotint by V. Green, 1786, after B. West, ca. 1780.

An Anabaptist man stabbing his mother. Etching.

The genuine tryal at large of Mary Blandy, spinster, for poisoning her late father Francis Blandy : at the Assizes held at Oxford, for the county of Oxford, on Tuesday the third of March, 1752.

Death masks of Martin, a parricide (left), and Eustache, a St Dominican black slave fêted for his assimilation to white culture in Paris (right). Process print, after a lithograph, 1835.

A genuine account of the most horrid parricide committed by Mary Blandy, spinster, upon the body of her father Francis Blandy ... : Together with the copy of a letter she had wrote to Mr. C-n ... and her confession before the magistrate. Also a copy of her commitment to Oxford Gaol ... / Published by some of the friends and relations of the family.

I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother ... : a case of parricide in the 19th century / edited by Michel Foucault ; [translated from the French].

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The genuine tryal at large of Mary Blandy, spinster, for poisoning her late father Francis Blandy : at the Assizes held at Oxford, for the county of Oxford, on Tuesday the third of March, 1752.

Aegisthus discovering the body of Clytaemnestra. Colour mezzotint by V. Green, 1786, after B. West, ca. 1780.

Death masks of Martin, a parricide (left), and Eustache, a St Dominican black slave fêted for his assimilation to white culture in Paris (right). Process print, after a lithograph, 1835.

I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother ... : a case of parricide in the 19th century / edited by Michel Foucault ; [translated from the French].