The Odyssey
by CTCWeb Editors
Homer, Iliad and Odyssey in Art and Literature
Art
The Feast of the Gods, by Giovanni Bellini, 1514.
The Rape of Helen by Paris, by Fra Angelico, National Gallery, London.
The Judgment of Paris, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
The building of the Trojan Horse, by G-B. Tiepolo, National Gallery, London.
Aeneas’ Flight from Troy, by Federico Barocci, L. E. Holden Fund, The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape, by Dosso Dossi, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Return of Odysseus, by Bernardo Betti Pintoricchio, National Gallery, London.
Literature
Metamorphoses, Ovid.
Dialogues of the Gods, Lucian.
Achilleid, Status.
De Rerum Natura, Cicero.
Aeneid, Virgil.
*References: Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth. Prentice Hall: New Jersey, 1995.
Lenardon, Robert J. Classical Mythology. Longman Press: New York, 1991.
