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LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / 15th century - miscellaneous Cassoni
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book V: Ulysses leaves Calypso, is shipwrecked and washed ashore the islands of the Phaeacians / vv. 43-149: Mercury is sent to Ortygia and commands Calypso to release Ulysses
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book V: Ulysses leaves Calypso, is shipwrecked and washed ashore the islands of the Phaeacians / vv. 243-261: With Calypso's help Ulysses builds a raft
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book V: Ulysses leaves Calypso, is shipwrecked and washed ashore the islands of the Phaeacians / vv. 333-351: Leucothea gives Ulysses her veil to protect him in the shipwreck
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book VI: Nausicaa finds the shipwrecked Ulysses / vv. 135-210: Ulysses meets Nausicaa
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book VI: Nausicaa finds the shipwrecked Ulysses / vv. 316-320: Nausicaa returns with Ulysses to the city of the Phaeacians
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book VIII: Ulysses is honoured with a feast by the Phaeacians / vv. 521-532: Ulysses is moved to tears by Demodocus singing about the conquest of Troy
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 287-294 (also Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIV, 205-212): Polyphemus devours two comrades of Ulysses
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 345-361: Ulysses makes Polyphemus drunken
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 371-394: Ulysses and his comrades blind Polyphemus
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 415-461: Ulysses and his comrades bind themselves at the belly of Polyphemus's sheep and so escape
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XII: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Elpenor, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Cattle of Sol) / vv. 181-191: Ulysses (bound to the mast) and his companions (with their ears stuffed) pass the Sirens
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XVII: Ulysses, disguised as a beggar, returns to his palace / vv. 291-327: Ulysses is recognised by his dog Argos who dies for joy
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XVIII: Ulysses, still disguised as beggar, defeats Irus / vv. 95-100: Ulysses beats Irus in a fistfight arranged by the suitors
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XIX: Ulysses speaks incognito with Penelope and is recognised by Euryclea / vv. 386-394, 467-505: Euryclea washes Ulysses's feet, recognises him by his scar, and promises to keep his secret
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Scenes without a clear textual source / Penelope weaving or undoing the shroud of Laertes (referred to in Book IV, vv. 94-109, and Book XIX, vv. 137-154) / Penelope weaving alone

Further details

Artist or creator

Apollonio di Giovanni (Dido Master, born 1415 or 1417, died 1465)

Date

1435 (circa) - 1445

Location

Chicago, Art Institute (inv. 1933.1006; about 1911 Munich, Julius Böhler)

Notes on photograph

Collection

Hamburg stamp (Bibliothek Warburg)

Bibliographic Citation

Paul Schubring, Cassoni, Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance, Supplement, Leipzig 1923, pp. 276, no. 253; Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, p. 53, no. 3

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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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