PaintingsBook X

The Odyssey

The Laestrygonians • 1st Century BC

• Depicts Laestrygonians hurling rocks at Odysseus' ship destroying all but one

• Painting was found on the wall of a Roman house

• Artist: Unknown

• Medium: Acrylic

Circe• Early 20th Century

• Painter: Wright Barker

• Depicts the goddess Circe whom turns Odysseus' men into pigs

• Odysseus in turn must sleep with Circe to change his men back to normal

• Medium: Acrylic

The Bag of Winds

• 1956

• Artist: A.M. Provenson

• Depicts Aeolus, the god of winds, giving Odysseus the bag of winds to guide him home

• Medium: Water Color

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Modern Day Examples

The Simpsons

• Homer depicts Odysseus in this Parody of the Odyssey

• He travels to Circe's island where she turns his men into pigs

• He comically eats the pigs not knowing there his men

Spongebob; The Bag of Winds

• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjze3M1Y6fg

• Spongebob receives a bag of winds to assist him in getting back to Bikini Bottom (Ithaca)

Percy Jackson

• Laestrygonians appear as bullies and attack Percy in a game of dodgeball

• In The Odyssey the Laestrygonians destroy Odysseus' ships with boulders