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| Julius Klinger Lustige Blätter (magazine) 1911 gouache on paper (study for poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Charles Dana Gibson Drawings by C.D. Gibson 1895 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Tilman Riemenschneider St Matthew ca. 1490-92 carved lindenwood (altarpiece fragment) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Hyacinthe Rigaud Portrait of painter Sébastien Bourdon ca. 1730-33 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Pierre Subleyras Portrait Study of Girolamo Vaini, Prince of Cantalupe and Duke of Selci ca. 1732 oil on canvas (sketch for investiture painting) Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Michaelina Woutiers Portrait of a Young Man 1655 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Portrait of Anna Bayer, the artist's second wife 1850 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Sten Didrik Bellander Swedish Bride 1950 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Figure of Publius Mutius (after antique relief) ca. 1529-35 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Raphael Barat Angel ca. 1630-40 lindenwood statue Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist Portrait of a Man ca. 1475 drawing, with added watercolor Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jacopo Bassano Portrait of a Patrician ca. 1540 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Anonymous French Artist Mourning Virgin ca. 1150 limestone (detached from larger scene) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Lovis Corinth Charlotte at the Dressing Table 1911 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Carl Curman Dante and Beatrice 1890 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Hellenistic Greek Culture Battle of Gods and Giants (panels from north frieze of the Pergamon Altar) 175-150 BC marble relief Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
After a light supper we retired for the night, but as I slept, a vision of an old man appeared to me. Age had withered him almost to a skeleton, except that his cloak was hitched up to reveal a thigh that retained some vestige of the strength of his youth. He wore a leather helmet on his head, and his expression was one of cunning and many wiles; he was lame in one leg, as if from a wound of some kind.* He stood by my bed and said, with a sinister smile: "You, my fine friend, are the only man who has ever treated us with such utter contempt. All others whose ships have passed by the island of Kephallenia have paid a visit to our home and deemed it a matter of importance to learn of my renown. You, on the other hand, have been so neglectful as to grant me not even the common courtesy of a salutation, despite my dwelling in the vicinity. But your omissions will be visited on you very soon. Ordeals like mine shall you undergo; land and sea you shall find united in enmity against you. However, to the maiden you have with you my wife sends greetings and wishes her joy, since she esteems chastity above all things. Good tidings too she sends her: her story has a happy ending."
I woke with a start, shivering in fright at my dream! Theagenes asked me what was wrong. "We may be too late to board our ship before she sails, " I replied. "I awoke in panic at the thought. Get up now and pack our things while I fetch Charikleia." The child came when I called, but the noise had awakened Tyrrhenos too, and he got out of bed to ask what we were doing. "What we are doing," I said, "is acting on your advice and trying to escape from those who have evil designs on us. You have been the kindest of men to us: heaven preserve you for it! One final favor I ask of you: take your boat over to Ithake and make an offering to Odysseus on our behalf. Ask him to temper his wrath against us, for he has appeared to me this very night and told me that he is angry at having been slighted."
*This description contains a number of Homeric allusions that would have the effect, for an educated reader, of identifying the apparition before Kalasiris solves the riddle by naming him [later in the passage]. The withering of age refers to the disguise given by Athene at Odyssey 13.398; the strong thigh comes from Odyssey 18.66; the leather helmet from Iliad 10.26; the Homeric words for 'cunning' and 'of many wiles' from Odyssey 13.332 and 1.1 respectively; the wound to the leg is the boar-inflicted scar from Odyssey 19.392.
– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)