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LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / 1450 (circa) - Cracow, Wawel, Cassone (formerly Vienna, Lanckoronski collection, Apollonio di Giovanni)
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 208-232 (also Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIV, 254-273: Ulysses's companions see the tame beasts and are welcomed by Circe
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 275-308 (also Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIV, 290-292): Mercury gives Ulysses the herb Moly
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 371-387: Before eating a meal, Ulysses asks Circe to return his companions to the human form
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XII: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Elpenor, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Cattle of Sol) / vv. 235-260: Scylla devours six of Ulysses's companions

Further details

First panel, right half: Ulysses's companions welcomed by Circe, Ulysses and Mercury, then a meal (perhaps the meal during which Circe tried to bewitch Ulysses); Schubring claims that Scylla and Charybdis appear at the right

Artist or creator

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

Date

15th century (middle)

Location

Cracow, Zamek Królewski na Wawelu, Panstwowe Zbiory Sztuki (formerly Vienna, collection Count Lanckoronski)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Paul Schubring, Cassoni, Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance, Supplement, Leipzig 1923, pp. 275-276, nos. 245-252; Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, p. 67, no. 34

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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