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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
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 40-50: Ulysses drives the souls of the dead away from the sacrifice
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 321-325: Ulysses sees Phaedra, Procris and Ariadne
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 281-297: Ulysses sees Chloris
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 582-592: Ulysses sees the starving Tantalus
Further details
At the right Charon's boat and Eurynomos, then Ulysses's comrades carrying the sacrifices, above Phaedra suspended by her ankles, in the centre Ulysses guarding the blood, behind him Chloris and Thya, most punishments to the left - many figures shown here are not in Homer
Artist or creator
Date
1761
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Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Description de deux tableaux de Polygnote donnée par Pausanias, in: Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et belles-Lettres, vol. 27. Paris. 1761, pp. 34-55. Plate: 2.
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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation
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