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| Hendrik Goltzius Allegory of Fame and History 1586 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
But now he far'd like Mars himselfe, so brandishing his lance;
As through the deepe shades of a hill, a raging fire should glance;
Held up to all eyes by a hill; about his lips a fome
Stood; as when th'Ocean is enrag'd; his eyes were overcome
With fervour, and resembl'd flames; set off, by his darke browes:
And from his temples, his bright helme, abhorred lightnings throwes.
For Jove, from foorth the sphere of starres, to his state, put his owne;
And all the blaze of both the hosts, confin'd, in him alone.
And all this was, since after this, he had not long to live;
This lightning flew before his death; which Pallas was to give,
(A small time thence, and now prepar'd) beneath the violence
Of great Pelides. In meane time, his present eminence,
Thought all things under it: and he, still where he saw the stands
of greatest strength, and bravest arm'd, there he would prove his hands:
Or no where; offering to breake through. But that past all his powre,
Although his will, were past all theirs; they stood him like a towre
Conjoynd so firme: that as a rocke, exsceeding high and great;
And standing neare the hoarie sea, beares many a boisterous threate
Of high-voic't winds, and billowes huge, belcht on it by the stormes;
So stood the Greeks great Hectors charge, nor stird their battellous formes.
– from Book XV of the Iliad, translated by George Chapman (ca. 1559-1634)
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| Hendrik Goltzius Sergeant 1587 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Drummer 1587 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Soldier with Broadsword and Shield 1587 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Musketeer 1587 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Pikeman 1587 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Standard Bearer 1587 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Standard Bearer 1585 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Allegory of Rome 1586 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Titus Manlius Torquatus 1586 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Horatius Cocles 1586 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Calphurnius 1586 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Marcus Valerius Corvus 1586 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Marcus Curtius 1586 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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