Eirenic

Max Ernst
Springtime in Paris
1950
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Christian Eriksson
Female Head
(study for sculpture group)
1920
bronze
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

Allart van Everdingen
Huts on a Rock
1675
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Edmund Edel
Berliner Abendpost
1902
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Adrianus Johannes Ehnle
Sacristy Door, open to Passage
ca. 1846
oil on panel
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Michael Echter
Figure of Pan
(from the Coffee Blot Album)
ca. 1850
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Johann Nepomuk Ender
Ajax on the Rock
ca. 1830-40
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Magnus Enckell
The Concert
1898
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

August Eiebakke
Provisions
1891
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Robert Engels
Patria Bicycles
1902
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ottmar Elliger
Diana the Huntress
ca. 1660-70
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

Eduard Engerth
Holy Family returning from the Temple
ca. 1855
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Albert Edelfelt
Sculptor Ville Vallgren with his Wife
1886
distemper and pastel on canvas
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

Johann Leonhard Eisler
Designs for Four Mascarons
ca. 1710
etching and engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Johann Christoph Erhard
The artist Johann Adam Klein in Traveling Clothes
1815
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Ulrich Erben
Metamorphosis
2004
acrylic on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Riddle:  My father-in-law killed my husband and my husband killed my father-in-law; my brother-in-law killed my father-in-law, and my father-in-law my father.

Answer:  Andromache.  (Achilles, father of her second husband, Pyrrhus, killed Hector; Pyrrhus killed Priam; Paris killed Achilles; and Achilles killed her father Eetion.)

Enigma:  Speak not and thou shalt speak my name.  But must thou speak?  Thus again, a great marvel, in speaking thou shalt speak my name.

Answer:  Silence.

Enigma:  I miss the eyes of Scylla, which the Sun himself and the Moon extinguished.  My father feared me when I was a girl, and now dead I am washed by two perennial rivers which my head sends forth on the rugged hill.

Answer:  Niobe.  (By the eyes she means her twelve children slain by Apollo (the Sun) and Artemis (the Moon).  They are called the eyes of Scylla because Scylla was supposed to have six heads.) 

Enigma:  From the sea I have a fishy parentage, and one contest can bring me to the games of Dionysus.  In the stadion, after anointing my body with oil, I slew by my hands the son of Demeter.  In the second place, I send out from both sides of me a mass of giants, pulled by many hands.

Answer:  The answer has not been guessed.  

Problem:  The Graces were carrying baskets of apples, and in each was the same number.  The nine Muses met them and asked them for apples, and they gave the same number to each Muse, and the nine and three had each of them the same number.  Tell me how many they gave and how they all had the same number.
Solution:  The three Graces had three baskets with four apples in each, i.e. twelve in all, and they each gave three to the Muses.

Oracle:  When in Siphnos there is a white senate-house and the market-place has a white brow, then it is for a prudent man to beware of a wooden ambush and a red herald.
Explanation:  The prytaneion and agora of Siphnos were built of white marble.  A Samian squadron came to Siphnos and sent in a ship an embassy requesting a loan of money.  On this being refused, the Samians landed and defeated the Siphnians, exacting ten times the sum.  The wooden ambush and red herald is the ship, all ships being then painted red.

– from Book XIV (Arithmetical Problems, Riddles, Oracles) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)