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| Jupp Wiertz Three Days to South America! German Zeppelin Shipping Company 1936 offset-print (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill French River Landscape, Bois-le-Roi 1877 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Anonymous Swiss Printmaker Lago Maggiore, Isola Bella ca. 1908 postcard Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Joachim Patinir Lakeside Landscape ca. 1510 oil on copper Musée Henri-Martin, Cahors |
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| George Bellows The Gulls, Monhegan 1911 oil on panel Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts |
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| Gherardo Cibo View of a Fortified Headland ca. 1570 watercolor on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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| August Ahlborn Gulf of Naples viewed from Ischia 1832 oil on canvas Landesmuseum Hannover |
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| P.C. Skovgaard View of the Sea from Møns Klint 1851 oil on canvas Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland, Denmark |
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| Ludwig Neuhoff Blue Grotto (Triton and Mermaid) 1897 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Maxime Maufra Pont Aven (ciel rouge) 1892 oil on cardboard, mounted on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest |
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| Henri Martin Evening View of Cottages ca. 1890 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Pierre-Justin Ouvrie View of Eaux-Bonnes 1845 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| François de Nomé View of Metz - with The Lamentation (at lower left) before 1620 oil on canvas Musée de La Cour d’Or, Metz |
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| Giuseppe Vasi View of the Roman Forum 1765 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Battista Piranesi Bird's Eye View of the Colosseum, Rome ca. 1776 etching Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Giovanni Ranzoni View of St Peter's Square 1663 engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
Not even now the old man is dead, do clusters of the cultivated vine grow on his tomb, but brambles and the astringent wild pear that contracts the traveller's lips and his throat parched with thirst. But he who passes by the tomb of Hipponax should pray his corpse to rest in sleep.
No monument for his father, but in mournful memory of his lamented son did Lysis build this empty mound of earth, burying but his name, since the remains of unhappy Mantitheus never came into his parents' hands.
I am Eteocles whom the hopes of the sea drew from husbandry and made a merchant in place of what I was by nature. I was travelling on the surface of the Tyrrhenian Sea, but with my ship I sunk headlong into its depths in a sudden fierce squall. It is not then the same wind that blows on the threshing-floor and fills the sails.
Man, spare thy life, and go not to sea in ill season. Even as it is, man's life is not long. Unhappy Cleonicus, thou wast hastening to reach bright Thasos, trading from Coelesyria – trading, O Cleonicus; but on thy voyage at the very setting of the Pleiads, with the Pleiads thou didst set.
Heedless, Theotimus, of the coming evil setting of rainy Arcturus didst thou set out on thy perilous voyage, which carried thee and thy companions, racing over the Aegean in the many-oared galley, to Hades. Alas for Aristodice and Eupolis, thy parents, who mourn thee, embracing thy empty tomb.
One should pray to be spared sea-voyages altogether, Theogenes, since thou, too, didst make thy grave in the Libyan Sea, when that tired close-packed flock of countless cranes descended like a cloud on thy loaded ship.*
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*Pliny tells of ships being similarly sunk by flocks of quails alighting on them at night