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| Toussaint Dubreuil Thetis dipping the infant Achilles into the Waters of the Styx ca. 1580-1600 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Pietro Testa Education of Achilles before 1650 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giacinto Brandi Achilles gazing at his Reflection in his Shield before 1691 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Giuseppe Cades Ulysses and Nestor seek Achilles in the Tent of Patroclus 1774 drawing, with gouache Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Pierre Subleyras Study for Psyche before 1749 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Andrea Appiani the Elder Psyche taking leave of her Family 1789 drawing Fondazione Cariplo, Milan |
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| Andrea Appiani the Elder Psyche before Proserpine 1789 drawing Fondazione Cariplo, Milan |
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| Giulio Romano Psyche receiving the Vase of Beauty from Proserpine ca. 1526-28 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Psyche's Wedding 1895 oil on canvas Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Hugh Douglas Hamilton Cupid and Psyche in the Nuptial Bower ca. 1791-92 oil on canvas National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
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| Augustin Pajou Anacreon educating Cupid 1777 drawing (design for carved relief) Musée du Louvre |
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| Toussaint Dubreuil Cupid Asleep ca. 1580-1600 drawing on prepared paper, with gouache Musée du Louvre |
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| Salvator Rosa Dream of Aeneas ca. 1662 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Claude Lorrain Landscape with Aeneas at Delos 1672 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Gregorio Lazzarini Battle between Aeneas and Misenus ca. 1710 oil on canvas Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata |
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| François Masson Study for Wall Decoration with Scenes from the Aeneid 1795 drawing Musée du Louvre |
from Questions About the Wife
I'm having trouble understanding the wife.
The wife seems like she is only there as a foil for your actions.
I want to know how the wife feels when you drag her
and your son down into the basement to start a new religion.
The religion has something to do with cowering
before a force greater than yourself and then being buried alive.
I want to know how the wife behaves in small, enclosed spaces:
if she is trying to comfort your son by telling him Daddy likes
to play funny games, or if she is already visualizing
herself walking into a women's shelter, your son
on her back and maybe, because this is a fantasy,
she carries a burning torch, like an angry villager, or a goddess.
Does the wife merit any revenge after you weed whack
the coffee table? Does she agree with you that the coffee table
is yours to destroy because you built it? What has she built
in the house that is hers to destroy? What kind of childhood
has the wife endured that allows her to understand you?
In her past life or lives, was the wife ever a shepherdess?
Does she see you as a sort of Pan, goatish, and pricked
by ticks, but also very well-endowed? When the wife transforms
into a tree can she still think or is she just a green haze
inside, an idea of growing?
– Rebecca Hazelton (2013)