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Penelope. Drawing after Attic pottery figure. Penelope encounters the returned Odysseus posing as a beggar. From a mural in the Macellum of Pompeii. Penelope (/ p ə ˈ n ɛ l ə p i / [1] pə-NEL-ə-pee; Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) [2] is a character in Homer's Odyssey.
Odysseus on the Island of the Phaecians (1630-1635) by Peter Paul Rubens. Odysseus on the island of the Phaecians is a landscape painting by Peter Paul Rubens, dating to around 1630–1635. It shows Nausicaa and her maids discovering Odysseus on Phaecia. It is now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence.
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The painting depicts an incident in the Odyssey, the epic poem by Homer which recounts the Greek hero Odysseus' 10 year long return journey home from the Siege of Troy. A blind giant Cyclops, Polyphemus, is preparing to hurl a large rock at the escaping boat of Odysseus and his crew. Odysseus in return is taunting him from the stern of the vessel.
The Sirens and Ulysses, 1837, 442.5 by 297 cm (14 ft 6.2 in by 9 ft 8.9 in). The Sirens and Ulysses is a large oil painting on canvas by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1837.
Matt Damon stars in the first look at director Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. On Monday, Feb. 17, Universal Pictures debuted the first photo from Nolan's star-studded adaptation, based on Homer ...
A 5th-century BC Greek vase in the British Museum with illustrations of Sirens similar to those in Ulysses and the Sirens. The work depicts a scene from the ancient Greek epic the Odyssey, in which the Sirens attempt to use their enchanting song to lure the titular hero Odysseus and his crew towards deadly waters.
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner.It depicts a scene from Homer's Odyssey, showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus, one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded, who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side. [1]