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| Peter Paul Rubens Minerva overcoming Ignorance ca. 1632-34 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Wilhelm Traut after Lucas Kilian Ecce Homo ca, 1636 woodcut Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Per Christian Brown Army Play 2005 C-print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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| Francesco Incarnatini The Drunkenness of Noah 1642 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Max Slevogt Danaë 1895 oil on canvas Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| Vittorio Manini Study of Recumbent Model 1910 oil on canvas Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of painter Suzanne Valadon 1884 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Paul Wilhelm Couple with Fruit 1910 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Adolph Menzel Worker Washing ca. 1872-74 drawing (study for painting) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Group of Figures ca. 1526-27 drawing Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
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| Annibale Carracci River God ca. 1593-94 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Evaristo Baschenis Still Life with Musical Instruments ca. 1660 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Anonymous French Artist Head of Horse 18th century drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Otto Dill Horsemen 1917 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Friedrich Gauermann Homeward Bound ca. 1850 oil on panel (cabinet miniature) Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Théodore Géricault Acrobat on Trapeze before 1824 drawing Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
Rhodanes and his companion are almost captured in a field by their pursuer, Damas: for there was a fisherman who gave information about the shepherds, who when tortured finally point out the field – Rhodanes found in it gold that had been revealed by the inscription on a leonine stele. A goatlike specter falls in love with Sinonis. For this reason Rhodanes and his companion leave the meadow. Finding Sinonis's garland of wild meadow flowers, Damas sends it to Garmus to console him. In their flight Rhodanes and his companion come upon an old woman in a hut. They hide in a cave that is dug right through for over three miles and is blocked at the mouth by a thicket. Damas suddenly arrives, and the old woman is questioned and faints on seeing the drawn sword. The horses on which Rhodanes and Sinonis were riding are seized; the troop of soldiers takes up position around the spot where Sinonis and Rhodanes are hiding; the bronze shield of one of the soldiers breaks on top of the cave; disclosure of the fugitives is caused by the empty sound of the echo; holes are dug around the cave, and Damas shouts all over; those within hear and flee to the innermost parts of the cave and make their escape in the direction of its other opening. Swarms of savage bees come from the cave and attack those who are digging there, and honey drops down onto the fugitives; both the bees and the honey are poisonous because the bees have fed on snakes; attacking those who have turned towards the cave, the bees seriously injure some and kill others.
– Iamblichus, from A Babylonian Story, written in Greek, 2nd century AD. A summary of the book was composed (also in Greek) in the 9th century by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. Except for fragments, the original text by Iamblichus was subsequently lost, but the summary by Photius has survived. This was translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989).