Benjamin West

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Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald is a 1786 history painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. It depicts a legendary scene in Scottish history in which the life of Alexander III of Scotland was saved during a hunting expedition from an attack by a stag by Colin Fitzgerald, who founded the Highland Clan Mackenzie. West was a noted American-born painter who settled in London in the 1760s and later went on to serve as the second president of the Royal Academy.

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The Life of Adam and Eve, also known in its Greek version as the Apocalypse of Moses (Ancient Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις Μωϋσέως, romanized: Apokalypsis Mōuseōs; Biblical Hebrew: ספר אדם וחוה), is a Jewish apocryphal group of writings. It recounts the lives of Adam and Eve from after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths. It provides more detail than does the Book of Genesis about the Fall of Man, including Eve's version of the story.

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In Greek mythology, Calypso was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years against his will. She promised Odysseus immortality if he would stay with her, but Odysseus preferred to return home. Eventually, after the intervention of the other gods, Calypso was forced to let Odysseus go.