THE LAESTRYGONONIANS ATTACK!
“They pelted us from the cliffs, with rocks as huge as a man could lift…”. Od. 10.120
This anonymous drawing, which the Rijksmuseum titles “Laestrygonen verpletteren de vloot van Odysseus met zware stenen” was made between 1500 and 1640.
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“At once she called … the glorious Antiphates, her husband, and he devised for them woeful destruction…” Od. 10.114
John Flaxman (1755–1826) was an English sculptor and draughtsman, closely tied to the Neoclassical movement. In the early 1790s, while living in Rome, he was commissioned by Thomas Hope to produce a series of outline drawings illustrating the Iliad and Odyssey. These were engraved and published in Rome in 1793.