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| Börje Almquist Autumn 1979 gelatin silver print from infrared film Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Anonymous German Printmaker Ex Libris - Vogeldoerffer 1581 hand-colored engraving Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Anonymous French Sculptor Torso 19th century marble National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Jayne Hinds Bidaut Torso, Male 1998 tintype Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Max Bilde Composition 1972 screenprint Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Leonhard Dorst Ex Libris - Leonhard Dorst 1844 chromolithograph Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Albrecht Dürer Flemish Woman attired for Church 1521 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Roj Friberg Emanuel Swedenborg ca. 1960 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| William David Jackson Back of Man's Head ca. 1890-1900 collodion silver print (cabinet card) Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Asger Jorn Havgus 1965 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Britt Juul Gogol's New Year ca. 2010 lithograph Stortingets Kunstsamling, Oslo |
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| Stig Kärrstrand Before the Meeting ca. 1965 linocut Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Knut Rumohr Head 1969 tempera on canvas Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Kathy Sherman Suder London 2011 C-print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Comme des Garçons (Japan) Ensemble with Jacket, Trousers and Skirt 1998 wool and cotton Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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| Heinrich Zille Carnival Booth - Roses from the South 1900 gelatin silver print Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
Chorus of the daughters of Danaus:
Come now, let us utter prayers of blessing
for the Argives, in return for their good deed;
and may Zeus god of strangers watch over
the words of our foreign lips as we honour them for putting an end
to our wandering, so that we speak in a manner no one will censure.
Now come, you gods
of the family of Zeus, pray hear me
as I pour forth my wishes for my kin:*
never may lustful Ares, insatiable of appetite for the cries of battle,
who reaps harvests of men in fields that are not arable,
cause this Pelasgian land to be wasted by fire –
because they took pity on us
and cast a kindly vote,
and because they respect the suppliants of Zeus,
this pitiable flock;
nor did they cast their vote
with the males, and so spurn
the struggle of the women –
they heeded Zeus's avenger,** ever on the watch,
hard to combat; what house would be pleased
to have him on its roof? where he perches, he brings grievous doom –
for they revere their kinsfolk
who were suppliants of holy Zeus;
therefore they will be propitiating the gods
at pure altars.
So from our shaded lips***
let words of prayer fly
with love and honour.
Never may plague empty
this city of men,
nor may war bloody
the soil of the land with its fallen natives;
may the flower of its youth
not be plucked, and may Aphrodite's
man-destroying bedfellow Ares
not mow down their finest.
– Aeschylus, from Suppliants (ca. 470-460 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*i.e. the Argives
**pictured here as a curse-bearing bird
***probably referring to their veils