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Homer on the Hamilton Vase – Red Figure Calyx Krater and Wedgwood Jasper Ware, British Museum Apotheosis of Homer from Alexandria c. 225 BC and Roman copy of original Hellenistic bust, British Museum
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
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
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Townley Odyssey C11th C15th Copy of the Odyssey
The Apotheosis of Homer by Ingres 1827, Louvre
Detail Ulysses in Crete from the ‘Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César’ 1330-1340, Naples Penelope, Laertes and Telemachus from a Mediaeval French Odyssey
Penelope and her suitors 1912 by Waterhouse, Aberdeen Art Gallery Penelope at her loom C15th from a coffer
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Penelope by Bassano c. 1580, Rennes
Penelope unravelling her web by Lamplight 1785 by Joseph Wright, Getty Museum
Penelope by Rossetti, Private Collection
Telemachus’s Journey to Pylos and Sparta
Telemachus with Nestor and Polycaste Red Figure Krater Helen recognising Telemachus as the son of Odysseus by Lagrenée, Hermitage Museum
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Menelaus capturing the sea god Proteus whilst in Egypt
The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis by David
Odysseus with Calypso by Styka 1901 Russell Flint
Odysseus and Athena at the meeting with Nausicaa Attic Red Figure amphora from Vulci c. 440 th BC, Munich Odysseus at sea on a raft of amphoras Boetian Black Figure skyphos found at Thebes C4 BC, Ashmolean Museum
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The Meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa by Jordaens c. 1640, Rijksmuseum Odysseus and Nausicaa by Desubleo
Odysseus and Nausicaa by Rosa, The Hermitage Nausicaa by Leighton 1878 Nausicaa by McGregor Paxton
Odysseus at the Games of the Phaeacians by Pogany 1915
Pentathletes Black Figure Vessel c. 525 BC
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The Lotus Eaters by Pogany 1915
The Adventures of Odysseus 1460
Cyclops Polyphemus devouring the Greeks by Pogany 1915
Odysseus and his Companions leaving the Land of the Lotus Eaters
Roman lamps showing Odysseus making Polyphemus drunk and escaping under his sheep, Getty Odysseus making Polyphemus drunk, Villa del Casale Sicily
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Odysseus and Polyphemus marble sarcophagus relief C2nd AD, Catania Sicily
Blinding of Polyphemus Early Attic Vase Eleusis
Blinding of Polyphemus Etruscan Tomb of Orcus
Blinding of Polyphemus Black Figure Skyphos from Boeotia c. 490-480 BC, Berlin Blinding of Polyphemus Archaic Vessel, Argos
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The Blinding of Polyphemus Black Figure Pelike C6th BC, British Museum
Blinding of Polyphemus Black Figure Kylix, Bibliothèque nationale Paris
The Blinding of Polyphemus Red Figure Calyx Krater C5th BC, British Museum
The Blinding of Polyphemus reconstruction from Tiberius’s villa at Sperlonga
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
Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus Bronze, British Museum Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus Bronze, Delphi
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
Odysseus Deriding Polyphemus by Turner 1829, National Gallery Polyphemus hurling the Rock by Reni
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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
Odysseus and Circe Mediaeval Manuscript
Odysseus’s men turned into pigs by Circe receiving the antidote Black Figure Kylix c. 560- 550 BC, Boston
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
Circe by Wright Barker 1889 The Wine of Circe by Burne Jones 1900
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
Odysseus with Tiresias Red Figure Vessel c. 380 BC, Bibliothèque Nationale
Odysseus at the Entrance to the Underworld by Fuseli
Bronze Siren from a Cauldron c. 700 BC, British Museum Odysseus in the Underworld by Flaxman
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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
Odysseus and the Sirens White Ground Vessel C6th BC, Athens Odysseus and the Sirens Roman mosaic, Palestrina
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
Odysseus and the Sirens Etruscan Cinerary Urn, Museo Guarnacci Volterra
Odysseus and the Sirens Etruscan Cinerary Urn, Museo Guarnacci Volterra
Odysseus and the Sirens Miniature from Benoît de Sainte Maure's "Le Roman de Troie« c. 1340-1350 Odysseus and the Sirens Chapter House Corbel Northern Cyprus C14th
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Odysseus and the Sirens by Etty 1837, Manchester Art Gallery Odysseus and the Sirens by Bruckmann 1829, Stuttgart
Odysseus and the Sirens by Belly 1867, Saint Omer
Odysseus and the Sirens by von Blaas 1882, Private Collection
Odysseus and the Sirens by Waterhouse 1891, Melbourne Odysseus and the Sirens by Moran 1900, Private Collection
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The Siren by Waterhouse c. 1900
Odysseus and the Sirens by Draper c. 1909, Ferens Art Gallery Hull
Scylla Red Figure Bell Scylla Terracotta Vessel c. Krater, Louvre 300 BC, Altes Museum Berlin
Scylla C4th BC rhyton, Publia
Scylla Terracotta Vessel, Metropolitan Museum
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Scylla Terracotta Plaque, British Museum
Reconstruction of Odysseus and Scylla at Tiberius’s Villa Sperlonga Reconstruction of Odysseus and Scylla at Tiberius’s Villa Sperlonga
One of Odysseus’s Companions, British Head of one of Odysseus’s Museum Companions in Scylla Group at Tiberius’s Villa Sperlonga
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Scylla and Charybdis Roman Sarcophagus c. 150 AD, Naples One of Odysseus’s Companions, Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli
Scylla and the Sirens, Manuscript of c. 1475, Getty Museum
Scylla Roman Sarcophagus c. 150 AD, Naples
Scylla and Charybdis, Circe and others by Breughel the Elder 1595
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Scylla and Charybdis by Fuseli Scylla and Charybdis Fresco by Allori c.1575
Flaxman Gillray
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The Corryvreckan (meaning Cauldron of Speckled Seas)Whirlpool Argyllshire between Jura and Scarba Straling the Cattle of Helios by Tibaldi 1554-6, Bologna
Departure of Odysseus from the Land of the Phaeacians by Claude Athena Revealing Ithaca to Odysseus by Bottani
Odysseus with his dog Argos on a Silver Denarius
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Odysseus recognised by Eurycleia Red Figure Vessel
The Return of Odysseus by Schutzenberger
Odysseus recognised by Euryclea by Heyne
Odysseus recognised by Eurycleia by Flaxman
Odysseus recognised by Euryclea by Boulanger 1849, Paris
Odysseus and Penelope Mirror
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Penelope and Odysseus Terracotta Plaque, Louvre
The Return of Odysseus by Pintoricchio 1508-9, National Gallery
Penelope and Odysseus by Tischbein 1802 Odysseus killing the Suitors Red Figure Bell Krater c. 330 BC, Louvre
Slaughter of the Suitors Reliefs c. 385 BC from Lycia, Vienna
Slaughter of the Suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus by Degeorge 1812, Clermont-Ferrand
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Slaughter of the Suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus by Palliere 1812 Slaughter of the Suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus by Moreau 1852-3
The Murder of Odysseus by Telegonus from Le Roman de Troie by Bênoit de Sainte-More c. 1350
Virgil Introduces Dante to Odysseus in the Eighth Circle of the Inferno by della Quercia C15th
Dante and Virgil meeting Odysseus in the Eighth Circle of the Inferno by Blake 1824-7, Tate Gallery
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