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| Guido Reni and workshop Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1625 oil on panel Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Paul Jourdy Woman Undressing before 1856 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Roman Empire Venus (formerly called the Borghese Hera) 2nd century AD marble Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen |
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| Charles Meynier Classical Statue of Mercury in a Landscape ca. 1793 oil on canvas Musée de la Révolution Française, Vizille |
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| Édouard Dantan Casting from Life 1887 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Élie Delaunay David Triumphant 1874 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes |
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| Martin Desjardins Hercules Crowned 1671 marble relief (accepted by the Académie as reception piece) Musée du Louvre |
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| Daniel Dupré Académie 1771 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Cesare da Sesto St Sebastian and other Figure Studies ca. 1508-1512 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Ancient Etruscan Culture Boy with Bird 250 BC bronze statuette Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Einar Forseth Study of Model 1928 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Johann Ulrich Mayr Classical Torso and Head 1655 drawing, with added watercolor Kupferstichkabinette, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Denman Waldo Ross Standing Model 1895 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Józef Rajnfeld Académie ca. 1930 drawing National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Nicolas Hogenberg Roman Soldier 1524 etching Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Hercules 2nd-1st century BC limestone (excavated on Cyprus) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
The same winter the Athenians, according to their ancient custom, solemnized a public funeral of the first slain in this war in this manner. Having set up a tent, they put into it the bones of the dead three days before the funeral; and everyone bringeth whatsoever he thinks good to his own. When the day comes of carrying them to their burial, certain cypress coffins are carried along in carts, for every tribe one, in which are the bones of the men of every tribe by themselves. There is likewise borne an empty hearse covered over for such as appear not nor were found amongst the rest when they were taken up. The funeral is accompanied by any that will, whether citizen or stranger; and the women of their kindred are also by at the burial lamenting and mourning. Then they put them into a public monument which standeth in the fairest suburbs of the city, in which place they have ever interred all that died in the wars except those that were slain in the field of Marathon, who, because their virtue was thought extraordinary, were therefore buried thereright. And when the earth is thrown over them, someone thought to exceed the rest in wisdom and dignity, chosen by the city, maketh an oration wherein he giveth them such praises as are fit; which done, the company depart. And this is the form of that burial; and for the whole time of the war, whensoever there was occasion, they observed the same.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)