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| Ignaz Günther Archangel Michael subduing Satan ca. 1760 carved and painted lindenwood Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Anonymous German Artist Archangel Michael subduing Demons ca. 1625-50 carved and painted lindenwood Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Giulio Benso Venus chastising Cupid ca. 1640 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giulio Clovio David and Goliath ca. 1557-61 watercolor and gouache on vellum Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
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| Gioacchino Assereto Cain slaying Abel ca. 1644 oil on canvas Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Frans Floris Cain slaying Abel ca. 1550 oil on panel Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Domenico Guidi Cain slaying Abel ca. 1650 terracotta relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| George Grosz Murder 1913-14 drawing Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Paolo Farinati Hercules, Mercury and Minerva slaying the Hydra ca. 1580 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| François Chifflart Hercules and the Nemean Lion ca. 1855 oil on canvas (grisaille) Musée de l'Oise |
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| Francesco Carboni Hercules and the Hydra before 1635 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Rudolf Schadow Death of Castor 1820-22 marble relief (overdoor, carved in Rome) Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin |
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| Baccio Bandinelli Hercules and Cacus ca. 1525 wax modello- (unused design for colossal marble sculpture) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Veit Königer Hercules slaying Cacus 1754 wood Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Félix Vallotton Orpheus torn apart by the Maenads 1914 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Battle of Gods and Giants 175-150 BC marble relief (detail of Pergamon Altar Frieze, north side) Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Chorus:
Ió, ió, my king, my king,
how shall I weep for you?
what is there I can say from my loyal heart?
Here you lie in this spider's web
after breathing your life out in an impious death –
ah me, ah me! – lying in a state unfit for a free man,
laid low in treacherous murder by the hand
of your wife with a two-edged weapon.
Clytemnestra:
You think this deed is mine?
Do not suppose so, nor reckon
that I am the spouse of Agamemnon:
no, the ancient, bitter avenging spirit
of Atreus, the furnisher of the cruel banquet,
has taken the likeness of this corpse's wife
and paid him out,
adding a full-grown sacrificial victim to the young ones.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)