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| Karl Struss Johannes Sembach in Costume ca. 1916 autochrome Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Hans Sandreuter Folk Hero Ueli Rotach in the Battle of the Stoss 1896-97 drawing, with added watercolor (sketch for mosaic) Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Albrecht Dürer Expulsion from Paradise 1510 woodcut Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Sebald Beham Hercules and the Hydra 1545 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Domenico Fiasella Study for Massacre of the Innocents ca. 1630 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Thoman Weber Tarquin and Lucretia ca. 1565 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Andrea Mantegna Sacrifice of Abraham ca. 1490-95 tempera on panel (grisaille) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Simon de Vos Beheading of St Paul ca. 1640-50 oil on copper Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1530 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Lorenzo Lippi Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1639-42 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| Tilman Riemenschneider St George and the Dragon ca. 1490 lindenwood Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Hercules and the Centaur Nessus ca. 1580 bronze Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Heinrich Aldegrever Hector battling the Greeks before Troy 1532 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| John Sell Cotman The Centaur 1806 drawing (inspired by the debut of the Elgin Marbles in London) British Museum |
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| Hans Ulrich Franck Four Quarreling Soldiers and a Woman ca. 1650 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| François Boucher Neptune and Amymone 1764 oil on canvas (tapestry design) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |
Chorus of Furies:
Ió, you younger gods, you have ridden roughshod over
the ancient laws, and taken them out of my hands into your own!
And I, wretched that I am, am dishonoured, grievously angry,
releasing poison, poison,
from my heart to cause grief in revenge
in this land – ah! –
a drip falling on the land,
such that it cannot bear! And from it
a canker causing leaflessness and childlessness – O Justice, Justice! –
sweeping over the soil
will fill the land with miasmas fatal to humans.
I groan. What shall I do?
I am a laughing-stock. I have suffered
unbearable treatment at the hands of the citizens!
Ió, great is the calamity that we unhappy daughters
of Night have suffered, grieving and dishonoured!
Athena: Let me persuade you not to take this with grief and groaning. You have not been defeated; the result of the trial was a genuinely equal vote, and did you no dishonour. The thing was that there was plain evidence before the court originating from Zeus, and the witness who testified was the same who had given the oracle that Orestes would come to no harm for doing what he did. So do not send down grievous wrath against this land; do not be angry; do not create sterility by releasing a dripping liquid from your lungs to make a savage froth that devours the seed – because I unreservedly promise you that you will have an underground abode within our soil where, sitting on gleaming thrones close to your altars, you will receive honours from these citizens.
– Aeschylus, from Eumenides (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)