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| Ernst Stöhr Man pursued by a Fury ca. 1895-1905 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| David and Sophie Sibire after Raphael Expulsion from Paradise ca. 1740 etching (printed in sepia) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Hans Baldung Conversion of St Paul ca. 1515-17 woodcut Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Sisto Badalocchio after Agostino Carracci Cupid overcoming Pan ca. 1610 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Anonymous Printmaker Battle Scene 1478 hand-colored woodcut (illustration to the Koberger Bible) Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Master of 1515 Battle of Tritons ca. 1515-20 drypoint Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Félix Vallotton The Orgy (from series, C'est la Guerre) 1915 woodcut Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Paul de Vos Amazons pursuing Stags ca. 1660 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| Abraham Jacobsz Hulk after Franz Ludwig Catel The Deluge ca. 1776 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux after Théodore Géricault Figure from Raft of the Medusa 1861 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Salvatore Castiglione The Raising of Lazarus 1645 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Hans Brosamer The Laocoön 1538 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| George Bellows Counted Out 1921 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Hieronymus Hopfer after Andrea Mantegna Hercules and Antaeus before 1550 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Nicolas-Sébastien Adam Prométhée enchaîné ca. 1738 terracotta modello Musée Lorrain à Nancy |
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| Nicolas-Sébastien Adam Prométhée enchaîné ca. 1738 terracotta modello Musée Lorrain à Nancy |
In Ios the boys, weaving a riddle* at the bidding of the Muses, vexed to death Homer the singer of the heroes. And the Nereids of the sea anointed him with nectar and laid him dead under the rock on the shore; because he glorified Thetis and her son, the battle-din of the other heroes and the deeds of Odysseus of Ithaca. Blessed among the islands in the sea is Ios, for small though she be, she covers the star of the Muses and Graces.
O stranger, it is granted to me, this island rock of Ios, to hold Maeonides,** the Persuader of men, the mighty-voiced, who sang even as the Muses. For in no other island but in me did he leave, when he died, the holy breath with which he told of the almighty nod of Zeus, and of Olympus, and of the strength of Ajax fighting for the ships, and of Hector his flesh stripped from his bones by the Thessalian horses of Achilles that dragged him over the plain of Troy. If thou marvellest that I who am so small cover so great a man, know that the spouse of Thetis likewise lies in Ikos that hath but a few clods of earth.
Wayfarer, though the tomb be small, pass me not by, but pour on me a libation, and venerate me as thou dost the gods. For I hold divine Homer the poet of the epic, honoured exceedingly by the Pierian Muses.
Here the famous tomb on the rock by the sea holdeth divine Homer, the skilled mouth by which the Muses spoke. Wonder not, O stranger, as thou lookest, if so little an island can contain so great a man. For my sister Delos, while she wandered yet on the waves, received Apollo from his mother's womb.
O stranger, the sea-beat earth covers Homer, the herald of the heroes' valour, the spokesman of the gods, a second sun to the life of the Greeks, the light of the Muses, the mouth that groweth not old of the whole world.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*the riddle which Homer, according to the story, could not guess, was: what we caught we left, what we did not catch we bring, i.e. lice
**an ancient appellation for Homer