Rites

attributed to Alessandro Maganza
Scene of Pagan Sacrifice
before 1630
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Interpreting the Sacrifice
ca. 1616-17
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Jan Steen
Sacrifice of Iphigenia
1671
oil on canvas
Leiden Collection, New York

Virgil Solis
Iphigenia rescued from Sacrifice
ca. 1550-60
woodcut
(illustration to the Metamorphoses of Ovid)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Louis Billotey
Study for Sacrifice of Iphigenia
1935
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Virgil Solis
Sacrifice of Polyxena
ca. 1550-60
woodcut
(illustration to the Metamorphoses of Ovid)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Pietro Antonio Novelli
Allegorical Scene of Pagan Sacrifice
ca. 1780-90
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jacopo de' Barbari
Sacrifice to Priapus
ca. 1501-1503
engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Johann Anton Ramboux
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1820
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany

Georg Lemberger
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
1524
hand-colored woodcut
(illustration to the "Luther" Bible)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Paul Troger
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
before 1762
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Kerstiaen de Keuninck
Landscape with Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1600
oil on panel
Kunstmuseum Basel

Antoine Coypel
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
before 1625
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pietro Palmieri the Elder
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1795
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Matthias Stom
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac 
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

The same winter, the Potidaeans, unable any longer to endure the siege, seeing the invasion of Attica by the Peloponnesians could not make them rise and seeing their victual failed and that they were forced, amongst divers other things done by them for necessity of food, to eat one another, propounded at length to Xenophon the son of Euripides, Hestiodorus the son of Arisocleidas, and Phanomachus the son of Callimachus, the Athenian commanders that lay before the city, to give the same into their hands.  And they, seeing both that the army was already afflicted by lying in that cold place and that the state had already spent two thousand talents upon the siege, accepted of it.  The conditions agreed on were these: "to depart, they and their wives and children and their auxiliary soldiers, every man with one suit of clothes and every woman with two, and to take with them everyone a certain sum of money for his charges by the way." Hereupon a truce was granted them to depart; and they went, some to the Chalcideans and others to other places as they could get to.  But the people of Athens called the commanders in question for compounding without them, conceiving that they might have gotten the city to discretion, and sent afterwards a colony to Potidaea of their own citizens.  These were the things done in this winter.  And so ended the second year of this war, written by Thucydides.

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)