John White - 1585

John White (c. 1540 – c. 1593) was an English artist and early pioneer of English efforts to settle North America. He was among those who sailed to the shore of present-day North Carolina in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition.

During his time at Roanoke Island he made a number of watercolor sketches of the surrounding landscape and the native Algonkin peoples. These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native American society of the Eastern seaboard; the surviving original watercolors are now stored in the print room of the British Museum.

Greece 540BC

Four male figures stung by bees, all nude and bearded; they are Laios, Keleos, Kerberos, and Aigolios, who plundered from the hives the honey on which the infant Zeus was nourished. The one on the left tries to drive off with a branch the bees which are stinging him on the knees, feet, and back; his left foot is drawn up in agony. The next to right is squatting down, full face, raising left hand to his head; bees are stinging him on the head, right arm, left knee and foot, and penis. The next, with a branch, is endeavouring to drive off bees which are stinging him in the breast and left arm. The last figure is crouching down to right, holding in his hands the disk-shaped stone on which one of the hives had been placed; he is being stung on the head, breast, left knee and penis. In the field are numerous other bees flying about.

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