Classical Mythology
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 479 Aeneas Carrying Anchises. Attic red-figure krater, ca. 460 B.c.; height Y7^3 /± in. The econ- ...
480 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS ..." With these words I spread my cloak and the skin of a tawny lion across my shoulder ...
THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 481 Similar magic was practiced by Demeter at Eleusis on the child Demophoôn. Nowhere does Homer ...
CHAPTER 20 THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY The returns of the Greek leaders from Troy were narrated in an epic called Nos- toi (Retu ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 483 Diomedes founded several cities in Italy, but he declined to help King Latinus against Aeneas. A ...
484 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS property is being wasted by suitors, and his son is the intended victim of a plot. He r ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 485 Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus, by Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711). Oil on canvas, 1 ...
486 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Calypso and Ulysses, by Emily Marshall. Watercolor on paper, 1820-1835; 19 X 24 in. Ca- ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 487 THE CICONES AND THE LOTUS EATERS It took Odysseus ten years to reach home. When he and his conti ...
(^488) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The Blinding of Polyphemus. Proto-Attic vase from Eleusis, mid-seventh century B.c.; ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 489 Odysseus was keeping for himself, opened it, and all the winds rushed out and blew the ships bac ...
(^490) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS They found Circe with various animals around her, and they themselves (ex- cept for ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 491 a slave to a poor man on earth than be king over all the souls of the dead." Ajax would not answ ...
(^492) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS while he had himself bound to the ship's mast so that he could not yield to the irre ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY^493 The king of the Phaeacians was Alcinoiis, and his daughter was Nausi- caa. The day after Odysseu ...
494 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The Return of Odysseus, by Pintoricchio (Bernardo Betti, 1454-1513). Fresco transferred ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 495 even so without effort did he string the great bow, did Odysseus. He took it in his right hand a ...
496 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Penelope at Her Loom and The Washing of Odysseus' Feet. Attic red-figure cup, ca. 440 B ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 497 the man who is the "man of many twists and turns" (polytropos, an epithet given him in the first ...
498 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS pears inevitable that she must choose one of them, she devises the test of the bow. Fin ...
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