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| Lou Barlow Modern Dance ca. 1939 lithograph Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Edgar Degas Dancer ca. 1872-73 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Peter Farmer Seated Dancer ca. 1970-75 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Brigid Hanrahan Ballet Dancers 2007 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Brigid Hanrahan Ballet Dancer with Tiara 2007 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Dance Training ca. 1910-11 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| attributed to Mathieu Le Nain Children Dancing ca. 1650 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Édouard Manet Ballet Dancer Mariano Camprubi ca. 1862-63 etching Detroit Institue of Arts |
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| Inge Morath Marilyn Monroe rehearsing a dance scene during the filming of The Misfits 1960 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Adriaen van Ostade Peasant Dancing ca. 1670-85 drawing, with watercolor British Museum |
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| Adriaen van de Venne Elderly Peasant Couple Dancing ca. 1620-26 watercolor and gouache on paper British Museum |
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| Salvatore Pinto Ballet Dancers ca. 1935-42 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| John Singer Sargent Spanish Dancer ca. 1879 drawing Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Randolph Schwabe Stanislas Idzikowski making-up for Léonide Massine's Cimarosiana ca. 1925 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| John Sloan Isadora Duncan 1915 etching Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Irving Penn Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (the Monte Carlo incarnation of the company dropped the s's from Ballets Russes) ca. 1945 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum |
The Modern Greek for "Nightmare" is "Ephialtes"
I think, what brought you to this pass?
Heroes lie thick, anonymous,
Blurred with honorable mention
In mass graves of fine intention,
And yet even now dreams yield
On their unequal battlefield
Betrayal's still familiar face,
The name that nothing can erase,
Not even final victory.
Sleep has no sense of history:
Even now I lose the day,
Always look the other way,
While old treachery awaits
The heart's warm springs, its hot gates.
– A.E. Stallings (2000)
Ephialtes: the Greek who betrayed the Spartans to the Persians at Thermopylae