Centaur at the Village Blacksmith, Arnold Böcklin, 1888

Ruggiero and Angelica (Roger Freeing Angelica), Arnold Böcklin, 1873

Diana’s Hunt, Arnold Böcklin, 1896

Angelica Guarded by a Dragon, Arnold Böcklin, between 1871 and 1874

The Island of Life, Arnold Böcklin, 1888

Roman Landscape with Bridge, Arnold Böcklin, 1863

Pan, Guardian of Mountain Springs

Anthologia Palatina 9.142 (author and date unknown)

We revere Pan-    Pan, who climbs the precipices-    Pan, who bears two horns-    Pan, leader of the Nymphs-    Pan, who cares for this house carved from rock; We pray that he be gracious to all of us    Who have come to this spring of ever-flowing water    And driven our thirst away.

Κρημνοβάταν, δίκερων, Νυμφῶν ἡγήτορα Πᾶνα   ἁζόμεθ’, ὃς πετρίνου τοῦδε κέκηδε δόμου, ἵλαον ἔμμεναι ἄμμιν, ὅσοι λίβα τήνδε μολόντες   ἀενάου πόματος δίψαν ἀπωσάμεθα.

Idyll (Pan Amidst Columns), Arnold Böcklin, ca. 1875

The Sanctuary of Hercules, Arnold Böcklin, 1884

Attack by Pirates, Arnold Böcklin, ca. 1880

Night, Arnold Böcklin, 1895

There's No Place Like Home

Theognis, Elegies 1.782-787 For I came once even to the land of Sicily, And I came too to Euboea’s vine-filled plain; Likewise to Sparta, that shining citadel Of the river Eurotas that nurtures reeds. Everyone greeted me warmly when I arrived, Yet in my mind I derived no joy from any of them. So true did it prove that nothing- nothing at all- Is dearer to me than the country of my birth.

Ἦλθον μὲν γὰρ ἔγωγε καὶ εἰς Σικελήν ποτε γαῖαν,    ἦλθον δ’ Εὐβοίης ἀμπελόεν πεδίον Σπάρτην δ’ Εὐρώτα δονακοτρόφου ἀγλαὸν ἄστυ·    καί μ’ ἐφίλευν προφρόνως πάντες ἐπερχόμενον· ἀλλ’ οὔτις μοι τέρψις ἐπὶ φρένας ἦλθεν ἐκείνων.    οὕτως οὐδὲν ἄρ’ ἦν φίλτερον ἄλλο πάτρης.

Die Heimkehr (The Homecoming), Arnold Böcklin, 1887

Ruin by the Sea, Arnold Böcklin, 1881

Selbstporträt mit fiedelndem Tod (Self-Portrait with Fiddling Death), Arnold Böcklin, 1872

Odysseus and Polyphemus, Arnold Böcklin, 1896

Die Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead), Arnold Böcklin, 1883