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| Philipp Otto Runge Portrait of Pauline Runge with her Son 1807 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Pieter van Lint St Christopher ca. 1675 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Parmigianino Woman carrying a Child ca. 1524-27 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Jean-Baptiste Peytavin Metabus fleeing with his daughter Camilla (scene from the Aeneid) 1808 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry |
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| Sebastiano Ricci Centaur Nessus abducting Dejanira, with Hercules in distance ca. 1700 oil on canvas Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Francisco Toledo Deer (Venados) ca. 1975-85 color etching and aquatint Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Vail Study for Pêcheurs de la Mer du Nord ca. 1893 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Franz Théobald Horny Study of an Italian Woman before 1824 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Albrecht Altdorfer Centaur carrying Spear and Cauldron of Fire ca. 1515-25 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Lucas van Leyden Children bearing Helmet and Standard 1527 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Francesco Giolfino Head of John the Baptist supported by Cherubs ca. 1500 lindenwood relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Anthony van Dyck Abraham leading Isaac to Sacrifice before 1620 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Heinrich Aldegrever Hercules carrying Pillars of Gaza 1550 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Jost Amman Titan carrying Boulder ca. 1565 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Franz Henseler Weinstub Bozener Batzenhäusl 1910 lithograph (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Max Slevogt Parrot Seller 1901 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
Hades, inexorable and unbending, why hast thou robbed baby Callaeschron of life? In the house of Persephone the boy shall be her plaything, but at home he leaves bitter suffering.
Five daughters and five sons did Bio bear to Didymon, but she got no joy from one of either. Bio, herself so excellent and a mother of such fine babes, was not buried by her children, but by strange hands.
Often on this her daughter's tomb did Cleina call on her dear short-lived child in wailing tones, summoning back the soul of Philaenis, who ere her wedding passed across the pale stream of Acheron.
Alas! Aristocrateia, thou art gone to deep Acheron, gone to rest before thy prime, before thy marriage; and naught but tears is left for thy mother, who reclining on thy tomb often bewails thee.
This is the dust of Timas, whom, dead before her marriage, the dark chamber of Persephone received. When she died, all her girl companions with newly sharpened steel shore their lovely locks.
In the sea, Nereus, died Sodamus the Cretan who loved thy nets and was at home on these thy waters. He excelled all men in his skill as a fisher, but the sea in a storm makes no distinction between fishermen and others.
Arcturus' rising is an ill season for sailors to sail at, and I, Aspasius, whose tomb thou passest, traveller, met my bitter fate by the blast of Boreas. My body, washed by the waters of the Aegean main, is lost at sea. Lamentable ever is the death of young men, but most mournful of all is the fate of travellers who perish in the sea.
Thymodes too, on a time, weeping for his unexpected sorrow built this empty tomb for his son Lycus; for not even does he lie under foreign earth, but some Bithynian strand, some island of the Black Sea holds him. There he lies, without funeral, showing his bare bones on the inhospitable shore.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)