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| Ancient Greek Culture Hydria 5th century BC bronze Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Etruscan Culture The Goddess Lasa 3rd-2nd century BC bronze statuette Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Roman Empire Bust of Plato 1st century AD bronze relief appliqué Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Roman Empire Mars 1st century AD bronze statuette Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Roman Empire Bust of Youth 1st-2nd century AD bronze relief appliqué (furniture ornament) Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Francesco di Giorgio Martini St Anthony Abbot ca. 1470-80 bronze plaquette Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius ca. 1500 gilt bronze Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Caradosso Foppa Silenus and Maenads 1500 bronze plaquette National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Andrea Mantegna St Sebastian ca. 1500 gilt-bronze statuette Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Pietro Tacca Tarquin and Lucretia ca. 1630 bronze Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Massimiliano Soldani after Gianlorenzo Bernini Damned Soul ca. 1705-1707 bronze Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Anton Mathias Joseph Domanöck Venus at the Forge of Vulcan 1753 bronze relief Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Maenad ca. 1865 bronze Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Pablo Picasso Jester 1905 bronze Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Einar Utzon-Frank Head of Aphrodite 1915 bronze Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Anonymous Artist Young Hercules 20th century bronze (forgery of Greek antiquity) Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
All this while the Athenians at Pylus besieged the Lacedaemonians in the island, and the army of the Peloponnesians in the continent remained still upon the place. This keeping of watch was exceedingly painful to the Athenians in respect of the want they had both of corn and water, for there was no well but one and that was in the fort itself of Pylus and no great one. And the greatest number turned up the gravel and drank such water as they were like to find there. They were also scanted of room for their camp and their galleys not having place to ride in, they were forced by turns some to stay ashore and others to take their victual and lie off at anchor. But their greatest discouragement was the time which they had stayed there longer than they had thought to have done, for they thought to have famished them out in a few days, being in a desert island and having nothing to drink but salt water. The cause hereof were the Lacedaemonians, who had proclaimed that any man that would should carry in meal, wine, cheese, and all other esculents necessary for a siege into the island, appointing for the same a great reward of silver; and if any Helot should carry in any thing, they promised him liberty. Hereupon divers with much danger imported victual, but especially the Helotes, who, putting off from all parts of Peloponnesus, wheresoever they chanced to be, came in at the parts of the island that lay to the wide sea. But they had a care above all to take such a time as to be brought in with the wind. For when it blew from the sea, they could escape the watch of the galleys easily; for they could not then lie round about the island at anchor. And the Helotes were nothing tender in putting ashore, for they ran their galleys on ground, valued at a price in money; and the men of arms also watched at all the landing places of the island. But as many as made attempt when the weather was calm were intercepted. There were also such as could dive, that swam over into the island through the haven, drawing after them in a string bottles filled with poppy tempered with honey, and pounded linseed; whereof some at the first passed unseen, but were afterwards watched. So that on either part they used all possible art, one side to send over food, the other to apprehend those that carried it.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)