Odysseus

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Odysseus consulting the shade of Tiresias

Pieter Lastman: Odysseus and Nausicaa

Ulysses and the Sirens

(Top) Obverse side of a silver denarius showing caduceus and bust of Mercury wearing winged petasos; (bottom) on the reverse side, Ulysses walking with staff and being greeted by his dog Argus, in a fine narrative illustration of Homer's Odyssey. The writing on the reverse gives the name of the moneyer under whose authority the coin was struck. Coins of this type, called serrati, were produced at the mint with cut edges to combat counterfeiting. Struck in the Roman Republic, 82 bc. Diameter 19 mm.

Odysseus slaying the suitors, detail of a red-figure skyphos from Tarquinii, c. 450 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ger.

The blinded Cyclops Polyphemus hurling a rock at Ulysses' ship as it sails away, line drawing by Steele Savage.

See the portrayal of Odysseus (or Ulysses), as represented in literature, art, and cinema over the ages

Take a seat at the Phaeacian feast and listen to Odysseus tell of his blinding cyclops giant Polyphemus

Listen to Odysseus wax poetic over homeland Ithaca in dramatization of Homer's epic poem Odyssey

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Odysseus slaying the suitors, detail of a red-figure skyphos from Tarquinii, c. 450 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ger.

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Also Known As	Ulixes • Ulysses
Role In	Trojan War

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Odysseus consulting the shade of Tiresias

Pieter Lastman: Odysseus and Nausicaa

Ulysses and the Sirens

(Top) Obverse side of a silver denarius showing caduceus and bust of Mercury wearing winged petasos; (bottom) on the reverse side, Ulysses walking with staff and being greeted by his dog Argus, in a fine narrative illustration of Homer's Odyssey. The writing on the reverse gives the name of the moneyer under whose authority the coin was struck. Coins of this type, called serrati, were produced at the mint with cut edges to combat counterfeiting. Struck in the Roman Republic, 82 bc. Diameter 19 mm.

Odysseus slaying the suitors, detail of a red-figure skyphos from Tarquinii, c. 450 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ger.

The blinded Cyclops Polyphemus hurling a rock at Ulysses' ship as it sails away, line drawing by Steele Savage.

See the portrayal of Odysseus (or Ulysses), as represented in literature, art, and cinema over the ages

Take a seat at the Phaeacian feast and listen to Odysseus tell of his blinding cyclops giant Polyphemus

Listen to Odysseus wax poetic over homeland Ithaca in dramatization of Homer's epic poem Odyssey

Listen to Agamemnon's ghost telling Odysseus how he was murdered

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