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artwork from classical eras to modern eras of the myth of Penelope and Odysseus as depicted in the Illiad and the Odyssey
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Penelope and Odysseus
Michael giammasi wangPenelope and OdysseusThe MythOdysseus and Penelope married in Greece, but the Trojan war started and Odysseus was drafted to the Greek armyOdysseus gets lost at sea (as in The Odyssey)Many suitors ask for Penelopes hand, but she wishes to stay loyalHowever, far too long passes and she is forced to pick a suitor, so she decides that when she finished weaving, she will remarrySo every day she wove, and every night she unwoveOdysseus finally returned, and killed all of Penelopes suitorsOdysseus, in the guise of a beggar, tries to be recognized by PenelopeArtist:Unkown
Year: 450 BC
Era:Classical Era
Odysseus shooting a bow at the crowd of the suitorsArtist:The Penelope Painter
Year:440 BC
Era:Classical Era
Penelope waiting for OdysseusArtist:Unkown
Year:Last quarter of 5th century BC
Era:Classical Era
Odysseus return to PenelopeArtist:Johannes Zainer (?-1523)
Year:1473
Era:Renaissance Era
From De mulieribus claris (Famous Women) by Giovanni Boccaccio6The Return of Odysseus (Penelope with the Suitors)Artist:Pinturicchio (1454-1513)
Year:1508-09
Era:Renaissance Era
Odysseus and Penelope
Artist:Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570)
Year:1563
Era:Renaissance Era
Odysseus and PenelopeArtist:Johann Heinrich Willhelm Tischbein (1751-1828)
Year:1802
Era:Neoclassical Era
Odysseus and PenelopeArtist:Johann Heinrich Willhelm Tischbein (1751-1828)
Year:19th century
Era:Neoclassical Era
Penelope waiting for UlyssesArtist:Rudolf von Deutsch (1835-?)
Year:1855
Era:Romantic Era
11Penelope and the suitorsArtist:John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Year:1912
Era:Pre-Raphaelite Era
Bibliographyhttp://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/penelope.htmlhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odysseus_Penelope_Louvre_CA860.jpg http://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=1638 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ring_Penelope_CdM_Luynes_515.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodcut_illustration_of_Odysseus%27s_return_to_Penelope_-_Penn_Provenance_Project.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinturicchio_-_The_Return_of_Odysseus_-_WGA17830.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Primaticcio_002.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odysseus_und_Penelope_(Tischbein).jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odysseus_und_Penelope_-_Johann_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Tischbein.jpg http://cenicitas.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/color001.jpg http://www.johnwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=36
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