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GODS AND MYTHS

Fates / Group of three / Miscellaneous

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book V: Ulysses leaves Calypso, is shipwrecked and washed ashore the islands of the Phaeacians / vv. 458-462: Ulysses returns the veil to the sea
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XIII: Ulysses is brought from the island of the Phaeaceans to Ithaca / vv. 86-92: The Phaeacians take the sleeping Ulysses to Ithaca
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XIII: Ulysses is brought from the island of the Phaeaceans to Ithaca / vv. 102-111: Description of the cave of the Nymphs
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XIII: Ulysses is brought from the island of the Phaeaceans to Ithaca / vv. 221-352: Minerva appears to Ulysses, who has just woken up, in the guise of a young prince
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Adaptions

Further details

This Neo-Platonic allegory contains allusions to Ulysses throwing the veil of Leucothea into the sea, to the Phaeacian ships travelling like a quadriga of horses (left background), and to Minerva adressing him after his landing in Ithaca, to the cave of the Nymphs (right) and to the Fates (bottom)

Artist or creator

Blake, William (1757-1827)

Date

1821

Location

New York, Morgan Library and Museum (inv. III, 45f)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Kathleen Raine, The Sea of Time and Space, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute 20 (1957), 318-337

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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