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| Thorbjørn Sørensen Greetings from Jens I 1997 acrylic on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Anton Maria Zanetti Title Cartouche 1749 chiaroscuro woodcut Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Sebald Beham Domitia Calvilla, Mother of Emperor Marcus Aurelius 1546 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Hellmut Eichrodt Seated Woman with Portfolio ca. 1895-1905 lithograph Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Richard Diebenkorn Untitled 1970 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Louise Nevelson Untitled 1967 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Johann Christoph Oberdörffer Hand with Bible Stories ca. 1695 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Anonymous German Artist Jupiter with Two Goddesses ca. 1730 hand-colored etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Francesco Faraone Aquila Sarcophagus Relief in the Maffei Collection, Rome 1704 etching and engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Eugène Delacroix Study of Twelve Antique Coins/Medals 1825 lithograph Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Battista Franco (il Semolei) Frieze of Skulls 1563 etching and engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| George Romney Neoclassical Figures in Friezes ca. 1776-77 drawing Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Roman Empire Cupids and Psyche making Perfume AD 50-79 fresco (cut from wall in Pompeii) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Hans Schultz Apocalyptic Struggle observed in the Sky 1587 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress (broadside) Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek, Zürich |
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| Balthasar van den Bos Ornamental Knot Pattern 1554 engraving Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist Pelikan Ink ca. 1895-1905 lithograph (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
When the ship was dashed to pieces two men strove with each other in the water, quarrelling for one plank. Antagoras struck Pisistratus. It was not inexcusable, for his life was at stake, but Justice was concerned. The one swam on, but the other was seized by a shark. She, the all-avenger, does not cease from vengeance even in the watery deep.
The serving-woman washing clothes on the sea-beach, a little above the wet rocks, was swept off, poor wretch, by a breaker which flooded the shore, and she drunk the bitter wave of death. She was in one moment released from life and from poverty. Who in a ship shall brave that sea from which even those on land are not protected?
The horse, accustomed to gallop over the plain and not over the waves, refuses to sail across the sea on the ship. Do not wonder at his neighing and kicking the sides of the vessel, and angrily trying to free himself from his bonds. He is indignant at being part of the cargo; for the swiftest of all creatures should not depend on others for his passage.
My staff guided me to the temple uninitiated not only in the mysteries, but in the sunlight. The goddesses initiated me into both, and on that night I knew that my eyes as well as my soul had been purged of sight. I went back to Athens without a staff, proclaiming the holiness of the mysteries of Demeter more clearly with my eyes than with my tongue.
Sit here under the poplar trees, traveller, for thou art weary, and come near and drink from my fountain. When thou art far away bethink thee of the spring near which stands Simus' statue beside his dead son Gillus.
Phoebus spoke thus of the sweet musician Glaphyrus when he breathed the spirit of love from his pierced flute: "Marsyas, thou didst lie concerning thy invention, for this man hath stolen Athena's flute from Phrygia. If thou hadst then breathed into such as this, Hyagnis had never wept for the contest by the Maeander in which the flute was fatal."*
– from Book IX (Declamatory and Descriptive Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*Hyagnis (according to one version at least) was the father of Marsyas. Marsyas having found the flute which Athena, after inventing it, threw away in disgust, claimed to be its inventor.