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Homer on the Hamilton Vase – Red Figure Apotheosis of Homer from Alexandria c. 225 BC and Roman copy of original Hellenistic Calyx Krater and Wedgwood Jasper Ware, bust, British Museum British Museum 1 2
Roman Mosaic with Homer and the Muses – Calliope the Muse of Epic Poetry
Aristotle with a bust of Homer by Rembrandt Homer by Rembrandt 1663, The Hague 1653, Metropolitan Museum
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Homer and his guide by Bouguereau Homer between Dante and Virgil in The The Parnassus by Raphael 1511, Vatican 1874, Milwaukee Art Museum Parnassus Fresco by Raphael 1509-10, Vatican 5 6
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Townley Odyssey C11th C15th Copy of the Odyssey
The Apotheosis of Homer by Ingres 1827, Louvre
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Detail Ulysses in Crete from the ‘Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César’ 1330-1340, Naples Penelope, Laertes and Telemachus from a Mediaeval French Odyssey 9 10
Penelope and her suitors 1912 by Waterhouse, Aberdeen Art Gallery Penelope at her loom C15th from a coffer 11 12
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Penelope by Bassano c. 1580, Rennes
Penelope unravelling her web by Lamplight 1785 by Joseph Wright, Getty Museum 13 14
Penelope by Rossetti, Private Collection
Telemachus’s Journey to Pylos and Sparta
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Telemachus with Nestor and Polycaste Red Figure Krater Helen recognising Telemachus as the son of Odysseus by Lagrenée, Hermitage Museum 17 18
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Menelaus capturing the sea god Proteus whilst in Egypt
The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis by David
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The Adventures of Odysseus 1460
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The Lotus Eaters by Pogany 1915
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Cyclops Polyphemus devouring the Greeks by Pogany 1915
Odysseus and his Companions leaving the Land of the Lotus Eaters 27 28
Roman lamps showing Odysseus making Polyphemus drunk and escaping under his sheep, Getty Odysseus making Polyphemus drunk, Villa del Casale Sicily 29 30
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Odysseus and Polyphemus marble sarcophagus relief C2nd AD, Catania Sicily
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Blinding of Polyphemus Early Attic Vase Eleusis
Blinding of Polyphemus Etruscan Tomb of Orcus 33 34
Blinding of Polyphemus Black Figure Skyphos from Boeotia c. 490-480 BC, Berlin Blinding of Polyphemus Archaic Vessel, Argos 35 36
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The Blinding of Polyphemus Black Figure Pelike C6th BC, British Museum
Blinding of Polyphemus Black Figure Kylix, Bibliothèque nationale Paris 37 38
The Blinding of Polyphemus Red Figure Calyx Krater C5th BC, British Museum
The Blinding of Polyphemus reconstruction from Tiberius’s villa at Sperlonga 39 40
Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus Black Figure Oinochoe and Six Technique Lekythos, British Museum
Blinding of Polyphemus Mediaeval Illustration
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Odysseus and Polyphemus from Christine de Pizan’s Othea’s Epistle c. 1410-1414, British Library
Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus Terracotta, Carlsberg Glyptpthek
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Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus Bronze, British Museum Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus Bronze, Delphi
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Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus Roman marble, Galleria Doria Pamphili Rome
Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus by Jordaens c. 1625, Pushkin Museum
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Polyphemus hurling the Rock by Carracci
Polyphemus hurling the Rock by Böcklin 1896
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Odysseus Deriding Polyphemus by Turner 1829, National Gallery Polyphemus hurling the Rock by Reni 51 52
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The Laestrygonians Hurling Rocks at the Fleet of Odysseus C1st BC Fresco, Vatican Odysseus and Circe White Ground Lekythos and Red Figure Calyx Krater, Metropolitan Museum 55 56
Odysseus and Circe Mediaeval Manuscript
Odysseus’s men turned into pigs by Circe receiving the antidote Black Figure Kylix c. 560- 550 BC, Boston
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Circe on two Maiolica Dishes C16th, British Museum
Circe with the Companions of Odysseus by Parmigianino
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Circe by Kauffmann
Emma Hart as Circe by Romney c. 1782, Waddesdon Manor
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Circe by Wright Barker 1889 The Wine of Circe by Burne Jones 1900 63 64
Circe by Waterhouse
Circe by Waterhouse 1911-1914
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Odysseus Threatening Circe Etruscan Bronze Mirror, Metropolitan Museum
Agamemnon, Tiresias and Ajax in the Underworld Etruscan Tomb of Orcus
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Odysseus with Tiresias Red Figure Vessel c. 380 BC, Bibliothèque Nationale
Odysseus at the Entrance to the Underworld by Fuseli
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Bronze Siren from a Cauldron c. 700 BC, British Museum Odysseus in the Underworld by Flaxman 71 72
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Sirens on a Corinthian Pyxis c. 600-575 BC, British Museum Odysseus and the Sirens Red Figure Stamnos c. 470 BC, British Museum 73 74
Odysseus and the Sirens White Ground Vessel C6th BC, Athens Odysseus and the Sirens Roman mosaic, Palestrina
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Odysseus and the Sirens Fresco from Pompeii, British Museum
Odysseus and the Sirens Roman Mosaic, Tunisia
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Odysseus and the Sirens Etruscan Cinerary Urn, Museo Guarnacci Volterra Odysseus and the Sirens Etruscan Alabaster Cinerary Urn C2nd BC, British Museum
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Odysseus and the Sirens Etruscan Cinerary Urn, Museo Guarnacci Volterra
Odysseus and the Sirens Etruscan Cinerary Urn, Museo Guarnacci Volterra 81 82
Odysseus and the Sirens Miniature from Benoît de Sainte Maure's "Le Roman de Sirens on a Roman gem British Museum Troie« c. 1340-1350 83 84
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Odysseus and the Sirens Chapter House Corbel Northern Cyprus C14th Odysseus and the Sirens by Bruckmann 1829, Stuttgart 85 86
Odysseus and the Sirens by Belly 1867, Saint Omer
Odysseus and the Sirens by Etty 1837, Manchester Art Gallery
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Odysseus and the Sirens by Waterhouse 1891, Melbourne
Odysseus and the Sirens by von Blaas 1882, Private Collection 89 90
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Odysseus and the Sirens by Moran 1900, Private Collection Odysseus and the Sirens by Draper c. 1909, Ferens Art Gallery Hull 91 92
The Siren by Waterhouse c. 1900 Scylla Red Figure Bell Krater, Louvre
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Scylla Terracotta Vessel c. 300 BC, Altes Museum Berlin
Scylla Terracotta Vessel, Metropolitan Museum 95 96
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Scylla Terracotta Plaque, British Museum
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Scylla on Etruscan Bronze Bowl, British Museum
Reconstruction of Odysseus and Scylla at Tiberius’s Villa Sperlonga
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Head of one of Odysseus’s Companions in Scylla Group at Tiberius’s Villa Sperlonga
Reconstruction of Odysseus and Scylla at Tiberius’s Villa Sperlonga
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One of Odysseus’s Companions, British Museum
One of Odysseus’s Companions, Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli 103 104
Scylla and Charybdis Roman Sarcophagus c. 150 AD, Naples Scylla Roman Sarcophagus c. 150 AD, Naples
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Scylla and the Sirens, Manuscript of c. 1475, Getty Museum
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Scylla and Charybdis by Fuseli
Scylla and Charybdis, Circe and others by Breughel the Elder 1595 109 110
Scylla and Charybdis Fresco by Allori c.1575
Flaxman
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Gillray 113 114
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The Corryvreckan (meaning Cauldron of Speckled Seas)Whirlpool Argyllshire between Jura and Scarba 115 116
Stealing the Cattle of Helios by Tibaldi 1554-6, Bologna Odysseus with Calypso by Styka 1901 117 118
Odysseus and Athena at the meeting with Nausicaa Attic Red Figure amphora from Vulci c. 440 BC, Munich Russell Flint 119 120
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Odysseus at sea on a raft of amphoras Boetian Black Figure skyphos found at Thebes C4th The Meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa by Jordaens c. 1640, Rijksmuseum BC, Ashmolean Museum 121 122
Odysseus and Nausicaa by Rosa, The Hermitage Odysseus and Nausicaa by Desubleo Nausicaa by Leighton 1878 123 124
Nausicaa by McGregor Paxton Pentathletes Black Figure Vessel c. 525 BC 125 126
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Odysseus at the Games of the Phaeacians by Pogany 1915
Departure of Odysseus from the Land of the Phaeacians by Claude 127 128
Athena Revealing Ithaca to Odysseus by Bottani 129 130
The Return of Odysseus by Schutzenberger
Odysseus with his dog Argos on a Silver Denarius
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Odysseus recognised by Eurycleia Red Figure Vessel Odysseus recognised by Euryclea by Heyne
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Odysseus recognised by Euryclea by Boulanger 1849, Paris
Odysseus recognised by Eurycleia by Flaxman 135 136
Penelope and Odysseus Terracotta Plaque, Louvre
Odysseus and Penelope Mirror
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The Return of Odysseus by Pintoricchio 1508-9, National Gallery Penelope and Odysseus by Tischbein 1802 139 140
Slaughter of the Suitors Reliefs c. 385 BC from Lycia, Vienna
Odysseus killing the Suitors Red Figure Bell Krater c. 330 BC, Louvre 141 142
Slaughter of the Suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus by Degeorge 1812, Clermont-Ferrand Slaughter of the Suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus by Palliere 1812 143 144
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The Murder of Odysseus by Telegonus from Le Roman de Troie by Bênoit de Sainte-More c. 1350
Slaughter of the Suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus by Moreau 1852-3 145 146
Dante and Virgil meeting Odysseus in the Eighth Circle of the Inferno by Blake 1824-7, Tate Gallery
Virgil Introduces Dante to Odysseus in the Eighth Circle of the Inferno by della Quercia C15th
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