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| Heinrich Nauen The Good Samaritan 1914 gouache on paper, mounted on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Anonymous French Artist Soldier lifting Dead Comrade 17th century drawing (after Milvian Bridge fresco of Raphael and Giulio Romano) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Benoît-Louis Prévost after Jean Jouvenet Figures Groupées ca. 1760 engraving Wellcome Collection, London |
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| Master of the Saint Vitus Legend St Vitus lifted into Oven ca. 1470-80 tempera on panel Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist Theseus discovering his Father's Weapons ca. 1780 woodcut (excised from printed book) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Andrea Mantegna David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1490-95 tempera on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jules-Claude Ziegler Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1847 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Giovanni Battista Mercati Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist 1626 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Einar Forseth Cellini's Perseus in Florence 1920 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Albrecht Dürer Standard Bearer ca. 1501 engraving Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Jacob Smies Académie (Trumpeter) 1803 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacob van der Smissen Painter with Parasol ca. 1775 watercolor on paper Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Joseph Werner the Younger Amazon with Winged Helmet 1675 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Martin Schongauer One of the Wise Virgins (Biblical parable) ca. 1470-80 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Dosso Dossi Learned Man of Antiquity ca. 1540 oil on canvas (painted to be viewed from below) Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Eugène Jansson Athletes 1912 oil on canvas Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
Demo and Methymna when they heard that Euphron, the frenzied devotee at the triennial festivals of Hera, was dead, refused to live longer, and made of their long knitted girdles nooses for their necks, to hang themselves.
Let not this, Philaenis, weigh on thy heart, that the earth in which it was thy fate to lie is not beside the Nile, but that thou art laid in this tomb at Eleutherna. From no matter where, the road is the same to Hades.
Who ever canst thou be? Whose poor bones are these that remain exposed beside the road in a coffin half open to the light, the mean tomb and monument ever scraped by the axle and wheel of the traveller's coach? Soon the carriages will crush thy ribs, poor wretch, and none to shed a tear for thee.
I, the stone coffin that contains the head of Heraclitus, was once a rounded and unworn cylinder, but Time has worn me like the shingle, for I lie in the road, the highway for all sorts and conditions of men. I announce to mortals, although I have no stele, that I hold the divine dog who used to bark at the commons.
The gravestone heavy with grief says "Death has carried away short-lived little Theodota," and the little one says again to her father, "Theodotus, cease to grieve; mortals are often unfortunate."
Not yet had thy hair been cut, Cleodicus, nor had the moon yet driven her chariot for thrice twelve periods across the heavens, when Nicasis thy mother and thy father Periclitus, on the brink of thy lamented tomb, poor child, wailed much over thy coffin. In unknown Acheron, Cleodicus, shalt thou bloom in a youth that never, never may return here.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)

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