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Cuchulain talks with Emer by Stephen Reid 1910

Achaemenid king killing a Greek hoplite, a possible depiction of Xerxes I killing Leonidas, sculpted c. 500– 475 BCE

Druids by unknown artist

VIDEO: The poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling, from his book, Rewards and Fairies 1910. Read aloud by Dennis Hopper on the Johnny Cash Show in 1970.

Puck by Joshua Reynolds 1789

Bellerophon riding Pegasus and killing the Chimera, Roman mosaic, the Rolin Museum in Autun, France, 2nd-3rd C. CE

Hermes kills the 100-eyed Argos by The Argos Painter 5th C. BCE

Oedipus and the Sphinx, interior of an Attic red-figured kylix (cup or drinking vessel), c. 470 BCE

Urania with Orontius Finnaeus (Oronce Finé) - from Orontius' book, Cosmographia, 1542

Statue of Mercury in a landscape by Charles Meynier 1700/1800s

Dionysos with maenads, satyrs, and athletes by The Kleophrades Painter 500 BCE