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GODS AND MYTHS

Historia Troiana / Cycles / Manuscripts / Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, cod. 881

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 371-394: Ulysses and his comrades blind Polyphemus
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book III: Aeneas recounts his journeys: Thrace, Delos, Crete, the island of the Harpies, Buthrotum, Italy / vv. 634-638: Achaemenides recounts the blinding of Polyphemus
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book III: Aeneas recounts his journeys: Thrace, Delos, Crete, the island of the Harpies, Buthrotum, Italy / Achaemenides boards the ship of Aeneas (not explicitly described by Vergil) (also Ov. Met. XIV, 160)
Modern / Excidium Troiae / Cycles / Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, cod. 881

Further details

Artist or creator

Spanish or
Italian

Date

14th century

Location

Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, cod. 881

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Excidium Troiae. Folio: 61v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

E. Bagby Atwood and Virgil K. Whitaker (eds.), Excidium Troiae (Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1944)

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