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| Henri Matisse Reclining Nude I 1906-1907 terracotta Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| George Hurrell Ann Sheridan 1939 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Jean-Émile Laboureur La Liseuse au Fauteuil 1911 woodcut Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Thomas Eakins Model reclining in the Studio ca. 1890 platinum print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| František Kupka Planes by Colors ca. 1909-1910 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Pieter Feddes Cymon and Iphigenia (scene from Boccaccio's Decameron) 1613 etching British Museum |
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| Louis Ritman Mademoiselle Gaby before 1919 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Louis Ducis Sappho recalled to Life by the Charms of Music ca. 1811 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Louis Fratino The Sleepers 2020 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Jakob Gauermann Pastoral Life ca. 1825 gouache on paper Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Casto Plasencia Maestre Pompeian Scene 1876 oil on canvas Museo de Zaragoza, Spain |
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| Leon Kroll Summer, New York 1931 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Girolamo Ferroni after Carlo Maratti Jael and Barak beholding Sisera 1705 engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Anton Dietrich Dramatic Episode in Primeval Times ca. 1880 drawing (print study) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Leonard Freed Inside the Funeral Chapel 1965 gelatin silver print Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Joseph Hirsch Lunch Hour 1942 lithograph Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Lucian Freud Reclining Figure (Leigh Bowery) 1994 etching and drypoint British Museum |
from Iphigenia at Aulis
[Chorus of the women of Chalkis]
I crossed sand-hills.
I stand among the sea-drift before Aulis.
I crossed Euripos' strait –
Foam hissed after my boat.
I left Chalkis,
My city and the rock-ledges.
Arethusa twists among the boulders,
Increases – cuts into surf.
I come to see the battle-line
And the ships rowed here
By these spirits –
The Greeks are but half-men.
Golden Menelaus
And Agamemnon of proud birth
Direct the thousand ships.
They have cut pine-trees
For their oars.
They have gathered the ships for one purpose:
Helen shall return.
There are clumps of marsh-reed
And spear-grass about the strait.
Paris the bridegroom passed through them
When he took Helen – Aphrodite's gift.
For he had judged the godess
More beautiful than Hera.
Pallas was no longer radiant
As the three stood
Among the fresh-shallows of the strait.
– Euripides (485-406 BC), translated by H.D. (1910)