CLASSICAL STUDIES 105Greek and

Roman mythology

QUEST, TRIALS, NOSTALGIA

ODYSSEUS’RETURN HOME

RETURN TO ITHACA

Ithaca

NOVELS AND MOVIES:FLASHBACK

PARALLEL STORIESNARRATION OF PAST

EVENTS

interactive map at

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap

BOOK 1: THE DIVINE PERSPECTIVE

POSEIDON, ZEUS, ATHENE

BOOK 1: TELEMACHY

Telemachus and Penelope, Attic red-figure skyphos (440 BCE)

http://shelton.berkeley.edu/mymyth/pics29/W0009200501.jpg

BOOKS 2-4: TELEMACHY

BOOKS 5: OGYGIACALYPSO

Odysseus and Calypso, Attic red figured vase (5th century BCE)

Odysseus and Calypso by Gérard de Lairesse (17th century)

http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/artists/masters/big/l/lairesse/odysseus_painting.jpg

Calypso by Henri Lehmann (1869)

interactive map at

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap

BOOKS 6-8: SCHERIAPHAEACIANS

KING ALCINOUS, QUEEN ARETE

PRINCESS NAUSICAA

Odysseus holds up sprig, Athena stands by, Red figure vase from Etruria (475-25 BCE )

http://www.philipresheph.com/demodokos/odyssey/pic25.htm

http://www.wisdomportal.com/Poems/NaussicaOdysseus.jpg

Odysseus and Nausicaa by Pieter Lastman (1619)

Odysseus and Nausicaa by Salvator Rosa (17th century)

http://www.artilim.com/painting/r/rosa-salvator/odysseus-and-nausicaa.jpg

Ulysses and Nausicaa by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785)

Nausicaa by Lord Leighton (1878)

http://coffeewithpierre.com/files/145.jpg

interactive map at

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap

BOOKS 9-12: ODYSSEUS’ NARRATIVE

BOOK 9: SICILYPOLYPHEMUS THE

CYCLOPS

Mosaic of Odysseus and Polyphemus, Roman villa at Piazza Armerina, (310-25 CE)

http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/31237/wm/pd2878281.jpg

Readying the stake, krater from Italy (410-135 BCE)

Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, detail from a proto-Attic Amphora,( c. 650 BCE)

Odysseus and men blinding Polyphemus, Etruscan hydria, (530-10 BCE)

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1788/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1788-15373.jpg

BOOKS 10: LAESTRYGONIANS

The Laestrygonians hurling rocks at Odysseus' ship, wall painting (late 1st c BCE)

BOOK 10: AEAEACIRCE

Odysseus at the Palace of Circe by Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg (1667)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jNPdJTlGXNE/TqBeyU3PctI/AAAAAAAAEAE/baPWcQgBFgc/s640/ehrenberg+palace+circe+getty.jpg

Wine of Circe by Edward Burne-Jones (1863)

http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/circe-burne-jones.jpg

Odysseus’ men turned into pigs, Attic red figure lekythos, (5th century BCE)

Odysseus and his men at Circe’s, Attic black figure kylix (c. 540 BCE)

BOOKS 11: UNDERWORLDTIRESIAS

Tiresias Appears to Ulysses During the Sacrificing by Johann Heinrich Fussli (1780-85)

http://darrylhattenhauer.com/h10/7/images/Fussli%20Johann%20Heinrich_%20Tiresias%20Appears%20To%20Ulysses%20During%20The%20Sacrificing%201780%2085_jpg.jpg

BOOKS 12: SIRENS

Bronze Siren (8th century BCE)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/2627314426_d9f69de7a7.jpg

Funerary statue of Siren, Athens (c. 370 BCE)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2619422328_ca8f7ecc80.jpg

Odysseus and the Sirens, detail from an Attic red-figured stamnos, (ca. 480-470 BC)

Odysseus and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse (1891)

interactive map at

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap

BOOKS 12: SICILY:SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS

STRAIT OF MESSINA

Scylla, Boeotian bell krater (450-25 BCE)

Scylla the Sea Monster, Greek terracotta (5th c. BCE)

Encounter with Scylla, Roman (c. 30 BCE-70 CE)

De Charybde en Scylla no. 44 from Actualités by Honoré Daumier (1869)

interactive map at

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page=odymap

BOOKS 12: ISLAND OF HYPERION

The Cattle of Helios by P. Tibaldi (c. 1550)

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/382526/1/The-Companions-Of-Odysseus-Steal-The-Cattle-Of-Helios.jpg

CYCLOPSLAESTRYGONIANS

CIRCEUNDERWORLD

SIRENSSCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS

HYPERIONOGYGIASCHERIAITHACA

BOOKS 13-24: ITHACA

DISGUISE AND RECOGNITIONS

Ulysses (Odysseus) recognized by his dog by Pierre-Amédée Durand (1810)

http://www.greekworks.com/content/index.php?/photos/20060123/goodman_01/433

Odysseus and Argos by John Flaxman (1805)

http://www.philipresheph.com/demodokos/odyssey/pic125.jpg

Odysseus Recognized by Eurykleia by Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (1849)

http://media.kunst-fuer-alle.de/img/41/m/41_00187231~ulsysse-reconnu-par-sa-nourrice-euryclee.jpg

Odysseus and Eurykleia, Attic red figure skyphos (c. 450 BCE)

http://seniorlearn.org/latin/ulysses_penelope/UlyssesSatatticredfigure.jpg

WHAT KIND OF HERO IS ODYSSEUS?

POLUTROPOSHERMES - AUTOLYCUS -LAERTES - ODYSSEUS

THE TRIALS OF ODYSSEUS

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Odysseus escaping under ram, Roman bronze (1st-2nd c. CE)

http://www.artres.com/LowRes2/TR6/S/3/2/1/ART204900.jpg

Odysseus and Polyphemus by A. Carracci (1595-1605)

http://www.umich.edu/~homeros/Representations%20of%20Homer%27s%20Ideas/Paintings/Carracci%20-%20Polyphemus.jpg

Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus by J. M. W. Turner (1829)

The Laestrygonians hurling rocks at Odysseus' ship, wall painting (late 1st c BCE)

Odysseus and his men at Circe’s, Attic black figure kylix (c. 540 BCE)

Odysseus in the underworld, Roman wall painting (1st c. BCE)

Odysseus and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse (1891)

NOSTALGIANOSTOS + ALGOS

ANIMUS + ANIMA

EVERYMAN?

JAMES JOYCE ULYSSES

MARGARET ATWOOD THE PENELOPIAD