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Heroon of Gjolboschi, Turkey

Heroon of Gjolboschi, Turkey. Odysseus= King of Ithaca rounds southern Peloponnesus & driven off course Lotophagi- forgetfulness Western Sea= Polyphemos Aeolus- has bag of winds but no west wind, Odysseus cursed by Poseidon, father of Polyphemos! Poseidon is pro-Trojan

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Heroon of Gjolboschi, Turkey

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  1. Heroon of Gjolboschi, Turkey

  2. Odysseus= King of Ithaca rounds southern Peloponnesus & driven off course Lotophagi- forgetfulness Western Sea= Polyphemos Aeolus- has bag of winds but no west wind, Odysseus cursed by Poseidon, father of Polyphemos! Poseidon is pro-Trojan Telepylus / Lamus- city of Antiphates, King of the Lastrygonian cannibals Circe- turns Odysseus’ crew into swine, Hermes restores them after 1 year delay Odysseus seeks entry into the lower world to consult with Teiresias Passes Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis 8 Pictures= Lastrygonians, 2 attack scenes, isle of Circe, palace of Circe, 2 scenes in Hades, Siren scene Importance= narrative art vs. tabulae, paesaggio vs. megalographic, tilt-up perspective, rotulus effect

  3. Odysseus arrives in Lastrygonia

  4. Contrast of beautiful and horrible- transitions parallel Hellenistic biographies Figures lack detail, may be copy, part of a tradition, paesaggio not megalographic

  5. Attack of the Lastrygonians

  6. IMPRESSIONISM • Impressionism- developed by Antipholos of Alexandria 4th c. B.C. (Varro says its big in his own time) • Has rough sketch look plus luministico • Petronius- attributes compendiariaeto Alexandria • Pliny says invented by Nicomachos, son of Aristeides– breviorescompendiariae • Pliny says Greeks love to do scenes of wandering Odysseus, errantes per topia

  7. Circe letting Odysseus into her palace, and supplicating him after failure of her magic.

  8. Odysseus prays, cuts throats of sheep and dark blood flows, then sprits of dead Many are pierced with spears, wailing, ship lies offshore with billowing sail Chiaruscuro effect baths Odysseus in light Personification of Hades River lies on rocks Elpenor inscribed on far rock , Odysseus faces tall Teiresias who drinks blood Odysseus has behind him Eurylochus and Perimedes Pallid dead include Phaedra, Ariadne, Leda

  9. Orion hunts animals, Sisyphus pushes stone away from precipice 4 Danaids, daughters of Danaus, fill bottomless tub while the 5th mourns by rock 50 daughters murdered their husbands- story NOT from Odyssey but in Ovid Prometheus has liver picked over SECOND STYLE PHASE IIA- 40-30 B.C. Closed wall beginning to dominate more Reduced emphasis on depth and distance Slenderizing trend is beginning, architectural syntax falling apart

  10. Executed in 1674 by Pietro Santi Bartoli(Glasgow University Library, MS General 1496) Found 1600 on Esquiline Hill – Woman testing water, then Peitho, then Venus persuade bride Hymenaeus Offering within patera to incense burner plus lyre player Dated to ca. 15 B.C. but not sure

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