Homer Tag

Odysseus asks the bard Demodocus to sing of the wooden horse through which Troy was taken. As the bard recounts the destruction of the city, Odysseus quietly weeps–observed only by King Alcinous (Homer, Odyssey 8.487–535, produced with OpenAI image-generation tools based on prompts prepared by the author, edited by Atelier Guido Köhler & Co., Luwian Studies #6415).

As the main setting for a large part of The Odyssey, Scheria is not meant to be understood as just another stop on Odysseus’s wanderings, but as a deliberate flashback to a vanis

Model of the citadel of Mycenae, National Museum of Archaeology in Athens. The circuit walls are mostly of 13th century BC date, as is the Lion Gate. Grave Circle A (number 2 on the model), where the Shaft Graves were cut, was only included within the citadel walls during this last phase of expansion, possibly in an attempt to bolster dynastic claims. Photo by George E. Koronaios, CC By-SA 4.0.

November 26, 2019

By ANE Today Editor

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