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| Pierre Dupuis Antique Maiden bitten by a Lizard 1866 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Art d'Orléans |
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| Roman Empire Bust Portrait of a Boy 2nd century AD marble Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Roman Empire Erotes bringing in Harvest AD 350 marble mosaic fragment (extended as table-top in the 18th century) Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Roman Empire Putto with Lightning Bolt AD 50 marble relief Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Roman Egypt Funerary Mask of a Child 1st century AD stucco Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| attributed to Bonifacio Bembo Portrait of a Youth before 1480 tempera on panel Musée Jacquemart-André. Paris |
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| Hans Mielich Cupid ca. 1536 tempera on panel Historisches Museum, Regensburg |
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| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Prince Henryk Lubomirski as Genius of Fame ca. 1787-88 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Lucas Cranach the Younger Portrait of Prince Alexander von Sachsen ca. 1564 tempera on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Diana Scultori after Raffaellino da Reggio Conjoined Twins 1577 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Pietro Faccini Youth wearing a Ruff ca. 1590 drawing Fondation Custodia, Paris |
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| Hendrik Goltzius St John the Baptist ca. 1595 chiaroscuro woodcut Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Vincenzo Gonzaga, later 7th Duke of Mantua ca. 1604-1605 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Bartolomé González The future Philip IV of Spain at age 8 1613 oil on canvas Musée Massey, Tarbes |
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| Ottavio Leoni Portrait of a Boy ca. 1620 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Frans Luyckx Portrait of a Boy ca. 1635 oil on canvas Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki |
[Athena returns, accompanied by a herald, a trumpeter, and eleven judges. The essential paraphernalia of law-courts have been set in place: a chair for Athena as presiding officer, benches for the judges, and a table with two voting-urns. Athena takes her seat.]
Athena: Herald, make proclamation, and call the public to order; and let the piercing Etruscan trumpet, filled with human breath, sound heavenward and exhibit its shrill voice to the host. For now that this council is being convened, it will be helpful if all are silent and attentive to my ordinances – both the whole city for all time to come, and also these men [indicating the judges], so that the case may be properly decided.
[The trumpet is sounded, and the herald is about to make his proclamation when he is forestalled by the unexpected arrival of Apollo.]
Athena: Lord Apollo, rule over your own domain. Say what concern you have with this dispute.
Apollo: I have come to bear witness – for this man is a lawful supplicant who came to the hearth of my house, and it was I who purified him from the taint of homicide – and also to speak myself as his advocate. I bear the responsibility for the killing of this man's mother. Do you please bring this case before the court, and determine it to the best of your wisdom.
– Aeschylus, from Eumenides (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)