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"I sing of warfare and a man at war.
From the sea-coast of Troy in early days
He came to Italy by destiny,
To our Lavinian western shore..."
--Aeneid, trans. Robert Fitzgerald.

🎨Joan Kiddell-Monroe

Zeus, in the guise of a bull, tempts Europa to climb onto his back and carries her across the sea.

1. Alexander Sigov (b. 1955)
2. Nikolai Burdykin (b. 1960)
3. Valentin Serov (1865-1911)

Stunning illustrations by Bulgarian artist Svetlin Vassilev.

Works by Russian artist Nikolai Kalmakoff (1873–1955).

"Conversation by the Spring" by Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902). Oil on canvas laid on board; 54 x 100 cm. (21 1/4 x 39 1/4 in.). Image via Sotheby's.

"Ah, ah! You handmaidens, look at them there: like Gorgons, wrapped in sable garments, entwined with swarming snakes! I can stay no longer."
-Orestes on being pursued by the Furies in Aeschylus' "Libation Bearers," trans. Herbert Weir Smyth.

Art by John Singer Sargent (1921).

Turquoise waves rise up over Odysseus' raft as Poseidon, trident in hand, stirs a churning sea and conjures up black clouds. #FolkloreThursday

"The Raft of Odysseus" (1929) by N C Wyeth (1882-1945). Oil on canvas; 48 x 38 in. (121.9 x 96.5 cm.).

(2/2) The storms batters Leander as he crosses & attempts to see the light, but he drowns. Hero strains her eyes all night & finds his body washed ashore the next morning. She hurls herself from her tower in grief to meet him in death.

🎨M. Weber Taylor; C. von Bodenhausen

"Andromeda Chained to a Rock" (1874) by Henri-Pierre Picou (1824–1895). Oil on canvas; 47.3 in. h x 33.3 in. w (120.3 cm x 84.7 cm). Dahesh Museum of Art.

"...he assumed the semblance of a bull and mingled with the bullocks in the groves, his color white as virgin snow..."-Ovid, Metamorphoses Book II

Zeus, in the guise of a bull, abducts Europa and flees to Crete.

Art by Alexander Rothaug (1870-1946).