Iconography
LITERATURE
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 468-490: Ulysses, onboard of his ship, taunts Polyphemus who hurls the summit of the mountain at him
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 140-144: Ulysses and his comrades land on Circe's island Aiaia
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / Ulysses's companions as pigs or animals, with or without Circe
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 310-313 (also Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIV, 293-294): Circe welcomes Ulysses at the door
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 480-486: Ulysses takes leave of Circe
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / v. 20: Ulysses and his comrades arrive at the land of the Cimmerians
Further details
At the left arrival of Ulysses on Aiaia, then his comrades with animal heads, then Ulysses (protected by Mercury) encountering Circe, then taking leave from Circe (with a deity present, not according to Homer), above probably Tiresias, at the right journey to Hades, the Sirens and perhaps Polyphemus
Artist or creator
Date
1480 (circa)
Location
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery (inv. Lo. 2809)
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Paul Schubring, Cassoni, Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance, Supplement, Leipzig 1923, pp. 276-277, no. 255; Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, pp. 17 n. 61, 86
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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation
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