22/08/2018. Homer and his guide by Bouguereau 1874, Milwaukee Art Museum

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1 Apotheosis of Homer from Alexandria c. 225 BC and Roman copy of original Hellenistic bust, British Museum Homer on the Hamilton Vase Red Figure Calyx Krater and Wedgwood Jasper Ware, British Museum Roman Mosaic with Homer and the Muses Calliope the Muse of Epic Poetry Homer by Rembrandt 1663, The Hague Aristotle with a bust of Homer by Rembrandt 1653, Metropolitan Museum Homer and his guide by Bouguereau 1874, Milwaukee Art Museum Homer between Dante and Virgil in The Parnassus Fresco by Raphael , Vatican The Parnassus by Raphael 1511, Vatican 1

2 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 , Naples Penelope, Laertes and Telemachus from a Mediaeval French Odyssey Penelope at her loom C15th from a coffer Penelope and her suitors 1912 by Waterhouse, Aberdeen Art Gallery 2

3 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 3

4 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 BC, Munich Odysseus at sea on a raft of amphoras Boetian Black Figure skyphos found at Thebes C4 th BC, Ashmolean Museum 4

5 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 5

6 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 6

7 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 BC, Berlin Blinding of Polyphemus Archaic Vessel, Argos 7

8 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 8

9 Odysseus and Polyphemus from Christine de Pizan s Othea s Epistle c , 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 9

10 Polyphemus hurling the Rock by Carracci Polyphemus hurling the Rock by Böcklin 1896 Polyphemus hurling the Rock by Reni Odysseus Deriding Polyphemus by Turner 1829, National Gallery 10

11 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 BC, Boston Circe on two Maiolica Dishes C16th, British Museum Circe with the Companions of Odysseus by Parmigianino 11

12 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

13 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 Odysseus in the Underworld by Flaxman Bronze Siren from a Cauldron c. 700 BC, British Museum 13

14 Sirens on a Corinthian Pyxis c 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 14

15 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 Etruscan Cinerary Urn, Museo Guarnacci Volterra Odysseus and the Sirens Miniature from Benoît de Sainte Maure's "Le Roman de Troie«c Odysseus and the Sirens Chapter House Corbel Northern Cyprus C14th 15

16 Odysseus and the Sirens by Bruckmann 1829, Stuttgart Odysseus and the Sirens by Etty 1837, Manchester Art Gallery 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 16

17 The Siren by Waterhouse c Odysseus and the Sirens by Draper c. 1909, Ferens Art Gallery Hull Scylla Red Figure Bell Krater, Louvre Scylla Terracotta Vessel c. 300 BC, Altes Museum Berlin Scylla C4th BC rhyton, Publia Scylla Terracotta Vessel, Metropolitan Museum 17

18 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaa Scylla on Etruscan Bronze Bowl, British Museum 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 Head of one of Odysseus s Companions in Scylla Group at Tiberius s Villa Sperlonga One of Odysseus s Companions, British Museum 18

19 One of Odysseus s Companions, Hadrian s villa at Tivoli Scylla and Charybdis Roman Sarcophagus c. 150 AD, Naples 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

20 Scylla and Charybdis by Fuseli Scylla and Charybdis Fresco by Allori c.1575 Flaxman Gillray 20

21 The Corryvreckan (meaning Cauldron of Speckled Seas)Whirlpool Argyllshire between Jura and Scarba Straling the Cattle of Helios by Tibaldi , 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 21

22 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 22

23 Penelope and Odysseus Terracotta Plaque, Louvre The Return of Odysseus by Pintoricchio , 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 23

24 Slaughter of the Suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus by Palliere 1812 Slaughter of the Suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus by Moreau The Murder of Odysseus by Telegonus from Le Roman de Troie by Bênoit de Sainte-More c 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 , Tate Gallery 24