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Noh Nekyia

Read about a Noh performance based on Book XI of the Odyssey that was staged at Epidaurus in 2015.

Hermes and the Dead

Woodcut by Adolfo de Coralis for the 1926 Italian translation by Romagnoli. Source.

Odysseus and Penelope

See here for more Homeric illustration by Eberhard and Elfriede Binder.

Massacre of the Suitors

Ulysse et Télémaque massacrent les prétendants de Pénélope (1812) by Louis-Vincent-Léon Pallière. Source.

Kirk Douglas and the Bow

Kirk Douglas in Ulysses (1954). Source.

Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria

CD cover of the 1978 recording of Monteverdi' opera Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, conducted by Nicholaus Harnoncourt, with Trudeliese Schmidt as Penelope. Source.

Odysseus and Eurycleia with a Canada Dry

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Agios Athanasios

This a model of what an archaeological site known as Homer's School, on Ithaca, might have looked like in Mycenaean times. It could be Odysseus' palace. Source.

Argos the Dog by Victor Ambrus

The Adventures of Telemachus

Many readers of the Odyssey heart Telemachus. He got his own spinoff story, Les aventures de Télémaque, written by Archbishop Fénelon in 1699. Here Telemachus is visiting the isle of Calypso with Mentor, who is actually Athena in disguise. Source.