This presentation gives a visual overview of Homer's Odyssey, using famous works of art.

1. Homer’s Odyssey

3. Penelope
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1869

4. Feast of Penelope’s Suitors
Fyodor Tolstoy, 1818

5. Penelope Before Her Weaving, 15th c.

6. Penelope Unraveling Her Web by Lamplight
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1785

7. Helen Recognizing Telemachus
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, 1795

8. Odysseus and Calypso
Jan Brueghel the Elder, c. 1616

9. Odysseus and Calypso
Arnold Böcklin, 1883

10. Odysseus on Calypso’s Island
Detlev Conrad Blunck, 1830

11. Odysseus by the Sea
Arnold Böcklin, 1869

12. Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus
Gerard de Lairesse, c. 1670

13. Nausicaa
Frederic Leighton, c. 1879

14. Odysseus and Nausicaa
Joachim von Sandrart, c. 1630

15. Ulysses at the Court of Alcinous
Francisco Hayez, c. 1815

16. The Cyclops
Theodor van Thulden, 17th c.

17. Odysseus’s Escape, c. 500 BCE

18. Odysseus and Polyphemus
Arnold Böcklin, 1896

19. Aeolos Giving the Winds to Ulysses
Isaac Moillon, 17th c.

20. Circe
Wright Barker, 1889

21. Circe Mulling Wine
Gioacchino Assereto, c. 1630

22. Circe
John William Waterhouse, c. 1886

23. One of Odysseus’s Men Turned into a
Swine, 5th c. BCE

24. Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
John William Waterhouse, 1891

25. Ulysses and Circe
Bartholomäus Spranger, 1580

26. Sirens
Arnold Böcklin, 1875

27. Odysseus and the Sirens, c. 340 BCE

28. Ulysses and the Sirens
Léon Belly, 1867

29. Ulysses and the Sirens
John William Waterhouse, 1891

30. Odysseus Before Scylla and Charybdis
Heinrich Füssli, 1796

31. Scylla, c. 420 BCE

32. Tiresias Appears During the Sacrifice
Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1785

33. The Cattle of the Sun God, 6th c. BCE

34. Odysseus’s Men Steal the Cattle of the Sun God
Pelligrino Tibaldi, 1556

35. Ulysses’s Departure from the Land of the Phaeacians
Claude Lorrain, 1646

36. Odysseus Recognized by His Dog
Theodoor van Thulden, 17th c.

37. Penelope and the Suitors
John William Waterhouse, 1912

38. Odysseus Shooting His Bow, c. 420 BCE

39. The Slaughter of the Suitors
Louis-Vincent-Leon Palliere, 1812

40. The Suitors
Gustave Moreau, 1850s

41. Odysseus and Penelope
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1802