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Countess Sophie Marie von Voß (1729-1814) was a German lady in waiting and memoirist. She was the influential confidant and Oberhofmeisterin (mistress of the Robes) for many decades at the Prussian royal court. Her memoirs have also been published.

Jupiter Asleep on Mount Ida (1785) is a painting by French artist Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier that illustrates a scene from Homer's Iliad. It depicts Hera (Juno) enticing Jupiter (Zeus) to sleep with the help of Sleep (Hypnos) to distract him, allowing the gods to aid the Greeks during the Trojan War

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Collection: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, United States

The painting depicts the second scene in the first Act of the play after the daughter has declared: 'If by your art, my dearest father, you have / Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.'

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Little is known of Sappho's life. She was from a wealthy family from Lesbos, though her parents' names are uncertain. Ancient sources say that she had three brothers: Charaxos, Larichos and Eurygios. Two of them, Charaxos and Larichos, are mentioned in the Brothers Poem discovered in 2014. She also appears to have had a daughter, traditionally identified with Cleïs, who is mentioned in two of Sappho's fragments, 98 and 132. Sappho was exiled to Sicily around 600 BC, and may have continued to work until around 570 BC. According to legend, she killed herself by leaping from the Leucadian cliffs due to her unrequited love for the ferryman Phaon.

From March, 2023