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Meister Tilman Double-Sided Reliquary Bust of a Saint ca. 1475-1500 oakwood Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Anonymous French Artist Memento Mori ca. 1520 ivory Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Roman Empire Herm - Bacchus and Ariadne 1st century AD marble Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins |
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Michele Danesi Theseus and the Bull of Marathon (antique relief) 1842 lithograph Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Ancient Greek Artist Funerary Lion 320 BC marble (excavated in Athens) Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Julius Klinger Finkenstedt's Vogelfutter (advertising for birdseed) 1913 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Carlo Sarrabezolles Centaur with Urns ca. 1925 plaster Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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Ludwig Hohlwein Hermann Scherrer Sporting and Ladies' Tailor 1908 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Johann Georg de Hamilton The Kladruber Stallion Cerberus performing a Cabriole 1721 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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Hans Hammarskiöld Spanish Riding School 1952 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Battista Franco (il Semolei) Skeleton Study ca. 1550-60 etching and engraving Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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Tom Gundersen Social Democratic Icon 1991 color woodblock print Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Albert Marquet Drawing from a Cast after the Antique in the Studio of Gustave Moreau 1897 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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Bjørn Ransve Head in the Style of Jacques-Louis David 1977 oil on panel Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Joakim Skovgaard Foot ca. 1885 drawing Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Gustav Klucis Marching through the Third Year of the Five-Year Plan 1930 lithograph (poster) Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
I then narrated all of the adventures on our expedition away from Tyre – the voyage, the shipwreck, Egypt, the Rangers, the capture of Leucippe, the sham stomach at the altar, Menelaos's trick, the general's passion and Chaireas's medicine, the kidnapping by cutthroats and the wound in my thigh (showing my scar). When I reached the chapters about Melite, I modified my account of my behavior to emphasize my chastity (though I told no positive lies): Melite's passion and my self-control; her oft repeated pleas, disappointments, promises, and fits of melancholy. I included in my narrative the ship, the voyage to Ephesus, our sleeping together, and, "I swear by Artemis here present," how she rose from bed as a woman from another woman. I omitted only one scene from my synopsis, the fact that I subsequently discharged my obligation to Melite. When I had given them the banquet scene and the false-confession sequence and brought the story up to the arrival of the Byzantine embassy, I said: "That is my side of the story; Leucippe's is much more intense: she was sold, enslaved; she hoed the ground; her beautiful hair was ravaged. You see how she's shorn."
– Achilles Tatius, from Leucippe and Clitophon (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by John J. Winkler (1989)