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| Joseph Beuys King's Daughter Sees Iceland 1960 gouache on paper, mounted on felt over board Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Alan Davie Study for The Key 1960 oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Richard Diebenkorn Black Table 1960 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Per Erik Hagdahl Branches II 1963 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Knut Rumohr Landscape 1963 tempera on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Karel Appel Rocking in a Boat 1964 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Arne Ekeland Parnassus 1964 acrylic on paper Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Asger Jorn You Dog 1965 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Bram van Velde Composition 1970 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Jurjen de Haan Paaseiland 1978 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands |
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| Sigrid Burton Frenesi 1979 acrylic on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
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| Runi Langum Situation II 1981 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Georg Baselitz Die Verspottung (The Mocking) 1984 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Tina Juretzek June Women 1987 mixed media on cardboard Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Helmut Pfeuffer Stierfeld 1989 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Johanne Hansen-Krone Double Spiral 1996 oil on canvas Stortingets Kunstsamling, Oslo |
[Enter a Herald]
Herald: I have to announce the opinion and the decision of the people's council of this city of Cadmus. It has been resolved that Eteocles here, on account of his loyalty to his country, shall be buried in the loving recesses of the earth; for he found death while keeping out the enemy at the gates, and in pious defence of the temples of his fathers he has died blamelessly where it is honourable for the young to die. That is what I have been instructed to say about him, but his brother, the dead Polynices here, is to be cast out unburied, a prey for the dogs, as one who would have been the destroyer of the land of Cadmus, had not some god stood up to hinder his armed attack. Even in death he shall bear the pollution and curse of his ancestral gods, whom he insulted when he tried to capture the city, bringing a foreign army to attack it. So it is decided that he should get his due reward by receiving a dishonourable funeral from the flying birds; that he should neither lie under a laboriously raised burial-mound nor be dignified with high-pitched musical wailings; and that he should not have the honour of a funeral procession from his family. Such is the decision of the aforementioned Cadmean authorities.
Antigone: And I say to the leaders of the Cadmeans: if no one else is willing to join in burying this man, I will bury him, I will brave the danger of burying my brother, and I will not be ashamed to display such disobedient insubordination to the city. The power of the common womb from which we are sprung, children of a wretched mother and a miserable father, is a formidable thing. Therefore, my soul, with a sister's heart, living with dead, share willingly in the sufferings that he endures unwillingly. His flesh shall not be eaten by dogs or birds nor torn by hollow-bellied wolves – let no one think it will; for I shall myself, woman though I am, contrive to provide him with a funeral and burial, carrying it* in the fold of my fine linen robe, and myself cover him up – and let no one think otherwise. Courage will find a means to do it.
– Aeschylus, from Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*i.e. the earth to throw over the body