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| Hiroshi Sugimoto Carpenter Center 1993 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Morris Louis Delta Iota 1960 acrylic on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Anonymous German Artist Virgin and Child surrounded by Mothers with Infants 1518 oil on shaped panel (altarpiece fragment) Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Anne Sophie Blytt Untitled 1990 tempera on canvas KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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| François Aubert Shirt worn by the Emperor Maximilian on the Day of his Execution ca. 1867 albumen silver print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Koloman Moser (designer) Belt Buckle for Wiener Werkstätte 1905 copper, silver, opals Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Arne Andersson Untitled 1960 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Greek Culture in South Italy Kantharos with Seated Youth 310 BC painted terracotta Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Ruth Asawa Untitled ca. 1957-59 iron wire Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Clifford Smith Habitable Sculpture Series #1: Branch Bank 1968 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Greek Culture in South Italy Funerary Wreath 3rd century BC bronze frame and bronze wire with beads of glass, emerald and terracotta representing berries Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Anonymous German Artist Anatomical Model of a Child ca. 1600-1650 bronze (used by patients to show where afflicted) Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Jan Manker Split Möbius Strip ca. 1968 screenprint Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Ellsworth Kelly Plant I 1949 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Juno and other Deities ca. 1680-1720 watercolor and gouache on paper Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Eva Zettervall Macbeth Sisters 2011 screenprint Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Electra:
Would that you had not even died
under the walls of Troy, father,
to be buried by the stream of Scamander
to be buried by the stream of Scamander
with the rest of the host that fell by the spear!
Rather should his killers have been slain so,
so that someone far away
would have learned of the deadly fate
without experiencing these present troubles.
Chorus:
That, my child, would be better than gold;
you talk of something greater than great,
than Hyperborean, good fortune – because talking comes cheap!
But the crack of this double lash
strikes home: on one side those who might have helped
are now beneath the earth, while on the other the unclean hands
of the rulers, the cause of these
hateful sufferings, are a reproach to the father
and even more so to the children.
Orestes:
That pierced straight through
my ear, like an arrow.
Zeus, Zeus, who sends up from below
avenging ruin, soon or late,
against audacious, reckless
human violence! For my parents, both alike, there will be payment!
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)