Odysseus is warned about the Sirens, who lure ships’ crews to their deaths. After negotiating their threat, they sail past Scylla and Charybdis, but all his crew are lost in shipwreck, and he ends up with Calypso for 7 years.
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After escaping from Polyphemus, Odysseus’ crew release a bag of winds, resulting in all except for his ship being eaten by cannibals. They then reach Circe’s island, where she wants to turn them all into pigs.
More paintings of Russian and Slavic legends and folk tales, including Bogatyrs, Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf, Sleeping Beauty, and the Frog Princess.
King of Ithaca, he first feigns madness to dodge going to war against Troy, but then uses his cunning and ingenuity to design the Trojan Horse and conquer the city. Runs into trouble with Polyphemus during the return journey to Ithaca.
A prolific painter of Russian and Slavic folk tales. Includes a battle from the epic of Rus, Ivan Tsarevich the Firebird and the Grey Wolf, and Baba Yaga.
With Achilles refusing to take any part in the war against Troy, defeat is looming for the Greeks. His close friend Patroclus drives the Trojans back, but is killed by Hector. Achilles is thrown into deep grief.
Achilles, leading his Myrmidons, is key to the Greek successes in capturing the Troad outside the city of Troy. But when Agamemnon takes his concubine, Achilles is angry and withdraws from the fighting.
After killing the usurper Pelias, Jason and Medea flee to live in Corinth. But he is offered the hand of Glauce, so abandons Medea, and their lives fall apart.
More myth and Symbolism, with the Pleiades, Fates, and Fortuna, followed by large murals and a mosaic in the Library of Congress.
Born and brought up in New York City, he trained in Paris then travelled to Italy. He painted tales from the 1001 Nights, and in 1870 one of the earliest symbolist images by an American artist.
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