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CLASSICAL STUDIES 105. Greek and Roman mythology. QUEST, TRIALS, NOSTALGIA ODYSSEUS’RETURN HOME. RETURN TO ITHACA. Ithaca. NOVELS AND MOVIES: FLASHBACK PARALLEL STORIES NARRATION OF PAST EVENTS. interactive map at http :// www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/homer/index.php?page = odymap. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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
http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=e%2FE12102CR-d1.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=600&cell=600,420&cvt=jpeg
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