Images

Cephalus and Aurora by John Flaxman, 1789-90. Lady Lever Art Gallery, Cheshire.

Eos in her four-horse chariot, detail of terracotta red-figure lekanis vase attributed to the Stuttgart group, from Canosa, late 300s BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Eos lifting up the body of her son Memnon in the so-called "Memnon Pieta" on the interior of an Attic red-figure cup, signed by Douris (painter) and Kalliades (potter), from Capua, Italy, c. 490-480 BCE. Louvre, Paris.

The Death of Chramm, painting by Évariste Vital Luminais, 1879. The painting depicts the execution of Chramn (aka Chramm) and his family, by his own father King Chlothar I (r. 511-561). After rebelling against his father Chramn, was sentenced...

Radegund, niece of the King of Thuringia, is brought before King Chlothar I (r. 511-561), ruler of the Frankish kingdom of Soissons. Chlothar would take Radegund back to Soissons as his spoil of war, and would later make her one of his wives...

Theodebald and Gunther, young sons of the Frankish King Chlodomer (r. 511-524), are murdered by their uncle, King Chlothar I (r.511-561). In this depiction, King Chlothar is shown standing over his murdered nephew with a knife, while a tearful...

A 19th-century depiction of Chlothar I, King of the Franks (r. 511-561), a son of Clovis I (r. 481-511), oil on canvas by Jean Louis Bezard, commissioned by Louis-Philippe, King of the French in 1838 as part of a series on the portraits of...

Queen Clotilde (center) presides over the division of Clovis I's kingdom between his four sons (Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I, and Chlothar I) who are gathered around her. Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse.

Head of Chlothar I, Frankish king of Soissons and later of all the Franks (r. 511-561) Museum of Soissons.

Reconstruction of the Dendera Zodiac with its original colors. Egypt, c. 1st century BCE.