Images

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), oil on canvas portrait by Samuel Stillman Osgood, 1845. New York Historical Society.

The Flying Raven, Ex Libris for The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, lithograph on simili-parchment by Edouard Manet, 1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), photo by Mathew Benjamin Brady, c. 1849. National Archives and Records Administration.

A photograph of the leading Nazi Hermann Göring (1893-1946) at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-6. (Harry S. Truman Library & Museum)

Detail of the Odysseus and the Sirens mosaic from Dougga (Tunisia) depicting Odysseus' encounter with the Sirens. The three Sirens stand on a rocky island. The creatures are depicted with the legs and wings of birds and hold a variety of...

A photograph of Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-34) under police arrest. Charged by the Nazi government with starting the Reichstag Fire of 27 February 1933, van der Lubbe was found guilty and executed. (National Archives of the Netherlands)

A photograph of Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-34), a communist charged by the Nazi government with starting the Reichstag Fire of 27 February 1933. Found guilty, van der Lubbe was executed. (National Archives of the Netherlands)

Attic kylix (drinking cup) with a scene depicting Athena rescuing the Thessalonian hero Jason from the jaws of the dragon of Colchis. The Colchian dragon was a massive serpent, immortal and sleepless, that guarded the Golden Fleece, which...

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife of US Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, oil on canvas portrait by Ralph Earl, 1787. Museum of the City of New York.

Alexander Hamilton, oil on canvas portrait by John Trumbull, 1792. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.