Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature

A fascinating look at how the poetry of Homer in the Odyssey was rendered and interpreted down the ages by the artists, painters, sculptors, jewellers, poets and writers who followed soon thereafter in Ancient Greece and Rome. "By two voices the tales of Homer have been told us: to one of these we too often neglect to listen. Because the myths of Homer himself are told in words that are matchless, is it well that the story which art has left us should remain unread? The vase-painter and the gem-