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| Léopold Burthe Sappho with Lyre 1849 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne |
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| Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael Man carrying the Base of a Column ca. 1510-20 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Rembrandt van Rijn Self Portrait with Shadowed Eyes ca. 1631 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Hans Thoma The Artist's Cousin ca. 1860 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Jacob Jordaens St John the Baptist 1620 oil on panel Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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| attributed to Filippo Vitale St John the Baptist ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
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| Jan de Bray St John the Baptist in the Wilderness ca. 1675 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Michele Desubleo (Michele Fiammingo) St John the Baptist ca. 1650 oil on canvas Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Study of Antique Head of Julius Caesar ca. 1530-35 drawing Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Pål-Nils Nilsson Stig 1955 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Auguste-Alphonse Gaudar de La Verdine Classical Figure, Half-Length 1800 oil on canvas Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux |
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| Jakob Matthias Schmutzer Académie as Jupiter with Thunderbolt 1770 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Carlo Dolci St Paul of Thebes (Paul the Hermit) ca. 1645 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Domenico Maggiotto (Domenico Fedeli) La Pollaiuola ca. 1750-60 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Pierre-Narcisse Guérin Portrait of a Young Woman 1794 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Giovanni Maria Mataloni International Exposition of Industry and Labor, Torino 1911 lithograph (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Chorus of Theban Maidens [uttering sharp cries of terror]:
I hear the rattle of chariots around the city!
O Lady Hera!
The sockets of their heavy-laden axles are squealing!
Beloved Artemis!
The air is going mad with the brandishing of spears!
What is happening to our city? What will become of it?
What is the ending that god has yet to bring?
[They again utter sharp cries of terror.]
Now comes the bombardment of stones on the battlements!
Beloved Apollo!
Clashing of bronze-rimmed shields at the gates!
Child of Zeus, from whom
comes the clean conclusion to battle that decides a war,
and you, blest queen Onca,* dwelling before the city,
protect your seven-gated home.
O gods, you almighty defenders,
O gods and goddesses with decisive power
to guard the walls of this land,
do not betray this city in the toils of battle
to an enemy of alien speech!
Do not fail to hear, to hear the prayers
of maidens with uplifted hands!
– Aeschylus, from Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*The sanctuary of this local goddess was just outside one of the city gates