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| Moritz Rugendas Crater of Volcán de Colima, Mexico ca. 1831-34 oil on cardboard Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Giovanni Battista Langetti Prometheus ca. 1670 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Jacob Jordaens Prometheus Bound ca. 1640 oil on canvas Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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| Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz Portrait of Marie Raffenberg, the artist's Betrothed 1831 oil on copper Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Jacques Callot Les deux Pantalons se regardant ca. 1625 wood-engraving Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Harold W. Smith Untitled ca. 1971 halftone print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Bartholomeus Spranger St Barbara ca. 1580-90 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Jan van de Pavert Baroque Space 1986 drawing Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Morris Louis Daleth 1958-59 acrylic on cotton Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Rania Matar Emma - Brookline, Massachusetts 2009 inkjet print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| attributed to Jacob Frères Armchair for the Boudoir of Empress Joséphine at the Château de Saint-Cloud ca. 1804 painted and gilded wood upholstered in velvet Château de Malmaison |
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| Walter Hirsch Untitled 2002 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Anonymous Norwegian Artist Resurrection of Christ 19th century hand-colored engraving Anno Museum, Hamar, Norway |
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| Jean Bellegambe Last Judgment 1507 oil on panel Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai |
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| George Bellows Electrocution 1917 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Alfred-Émile-Léopold Stevens The Visit of Condolence 1857 oil on canvas Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels |
Orestes: Pylades, what shall I do? Should respect prevent me from killing my mother?
Orestes: I judge you the winner; you have advised me well. [To Clytemnestra] Follow me. I want to slay you right next to that man, since in life too you thought him better than my father. Sleep with him in death, since he is the man you love, while hating the man you have loved!
Clytemnestra: I reared you, and I want to grow old with you.
Orestes: What, you expect to share my home, after killing my father?
Clytemnestra: Destiny, my child, shares the responsibility for these events.
Orestes: Then destiny has been the cause of this coming death too!
Clytemnestra: Have you no respect for a parent's curse, my child?
Orestes: You gave birth to me – and then threw me into misery.
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)