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| Anonymous Swedish Designer Carl Larsson - Nationalmuseum 1992 lithograph (exhibition poster) Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Félix Auvray Return of Ulysses ca. 1820-30 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Jacob Adriaensz Backer The Four Evangelists ca. 1640 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Ferdinand Bol Ruth and Naomi ca. 1630-40 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Massimo Campigli The Friends 1929 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Agostino Carracci after Raffaellino da Reggio Tobias and the Angel 1581 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lovis Corinth Group of Women 1904 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Dominicus Custos Woman with Flute and Blind Man ca. 1590 engraving Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Group of Figures ca. 1812-15 drawing Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Alekos Fassianos Conversation ca. 1975 colored pencil on paper National Gallery, Athens |
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| Girolamo da Treviso Isaac blessing Jacob ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Auguste-Alexandre Hirsch The Muse Calliope teaching Music to the young Orpheus 1865 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie du Périgord |
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| Karl Hofer Boys from Ticino ca. 1920-25 drawing Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Nicolas Labbé The Visitation ca. 1640-43 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille |
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| Lucas van Leyden The Visitation ca. 1516 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| workshop of Peter Paul Rubens Christ Child with young St John the Baptist and Cherubs ca. 1620-30 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Chorus of Persian Elders: Mother, we do not wish to say what would make you either unduly fearful or unduly optimistic. You should approach the gods with supplications and ask them, if there was anything sinister in what you saw, to ensure that it is averted, but that what was good should be fulfilled for you, for your children, for the community, and for everyone that you care for. Secondly, you should pour drink-offerings to Earth and to the dead, and propitiate them with this prayer: that your husband Darius, whom you say you saw in the night, should send up to the light, from beneath the earth, blessings for you and your son, but that whatever is contrary to them be kept under the earth, ineffective, in the darkness. Using my intelligence to prophesy for you, I give you this advice in all good will, and our interpretation of these signs is that things will turn out well for you in every way.
Queen: Yes, as the first interpreter of the dream you have shown yourself loyal to my son and my house in the very definite words you have spoken. May what was good indeed be fulfilled! We shall make all these arrangements as you advise, towards the gods and towards our friends beneath the earth, when we return home. But there is something I wish to learn, my friends. Where in the world do they say that Athens is situated?
Chorus: Far away, near the place where the Lord Sun declines and sets.
Queen: And yet my son had a desire to conquer that city?
Queen: And yet my son had a desire to conquer that city?
– Aeschylus, from Persians (472 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
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