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| Jacob Philipp Hackert The Borghese Casino at Pratica di Mare 1780 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Johann Liss Game of Morra 1621 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Johann Heinrich Ramberg Troop of Actors on the Piazzetta in Venice ca. 1781-88 watercolor on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Johannes Lingelbach Carnival in Rome (Piazza Colonna) ca. 1650-51 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Carl Spitzweg Street in Venice ca. 1850 oil on panel Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Constantin Kügelgen The Blue Grotto of Capri 1833 oil on paper Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg |
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| Johann Joachim Faber Gorge near Sorrento 1823 oil on paper Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Rudolf Schuster Capri ca. 1885 oil on board Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Hans Thoma Landscape near La Spezia 1874 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| Johann Martin von Rohden Tivoli 1848 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner House of Meleager, Pompei 1839 watercolor on cardboard Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Christian Ludwig Seehas In the Park of Villa Borghese, Rome 1788 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Ernst Fries Parco Chigi, Ariccia 1824 watercolor on paper Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Alexander Kanoldt View of Olevano 1924 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur Antique Statues of Flora and Mercury in the Garden of the Duca di Sora in Frascati 1681 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Johann Christian Reinhart Olive Trees in Parco Chigi, Ariccia ca. 1809-1810 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Anaxagoras once said that the sun was a red-hot mass, and for this was about to be killed. His friend Pericles saved him, but he ended his own life owing to the sensitiveness of his wise mind.
Drink now, O Socrates, in the house of Zeus. Of a truth a god called thee wise and Wisdom is a goddess. From the Athenians thou didst receive simply hemlock, but they themselves drank it by thy mouth.
Xenophon not only went up country to the Persians for Cyrus' sake, but seeking a way up to the house of Zeus. For after showing that the affairs of Greece belonged to his education, he recorded how beautiful was the wisdom of Socrates.
Even as the great burning sun surpasseth the stars and the sea is stronger than the rivers, so I say that Epicharmus, whom this his city Syracuse crowned, excelleth all in wisdom.
About you, too, Protagoras, I heard that once leaving Athens in your old age you died on the road; for the city of Cecrops decreed your exile. So you escaped from Athens but not from Pluto.
Some say that Zeno of Citium, suffering much from old age, remained without food, and others that striking the earth with his hand he said, "I come of my own accord. Why dost thou call me?"
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)