Homer Collection

John Milton Vertue
JOHN MILTON English poet and puritan at the age of 21, with the motto: " Poets are born, not made"

Odysseus & Tame Animals
Odysseus and his men are amazed by a group of strangely tame wild animals - a lion licks Eurylochuss foot. Circe has cast a spell on them

Odysseus returns to his wife Penelope
Odysseus returns to his wife, Penelope, and his dog, Argos

Homer / Profile / Chapman
HOMER Blind Greek poet with the Iliad and the Odyssey below

George Chapman / Anon Copp
GEORGE CHAPMAN English poet and dramatist, known especially for his verse translations of Homer Date: 1559 - 1634

Odysseus & the Cyclops
Odysseus (Ulysses) plies Polyphemus the Cyclops with red wine, so that he and his men can escape from his cave and the prospect of being eaten alive

Odysseus & Penelope
Having killed the Suitors, the hero Odysseus (Ulysses) embraces his faithful wife, Penelope, while two adoring maids watch them

Odysseus returns to his wife, Penelope

Breezing Up by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Date: 1876

Homer (c. 8th century). Greek epic poet. Bust. Copy of an ori
Homer (c.8th century). Greek epic poet. Bust. Copy of an original from 2nd century BC. Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy. Rome. Italy

Seaside shops at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Seaside shops at The Albion corner in Walton-on-the-Naze, on the north Essex coast. 1970

Greece / Ithaca 1863
Ithaca, in the Ionian Sea. The School of Homer Date: 1863

Homer / Bust / Baiae
HOMER Blind Greek poet

HOMER (9th century BC). Greek writer. Roman copy from a Hellenistic Greek original. Hellenistic art.; Roman art. Sculpture on marble. ITALY. Naples. National Museum of Archaeology

Homer / Phillipoteaux
HOMER Blind Greek poet singing to sailors

Caricature by Phil May, of William Gladstone, reading Homer
Caricature illustration by Phil May, of William Gladstone, seated, reading Homer. Captioned, A Vacation Exercise'. Philip William May (22 April 1864 ?? 5 August 1903), caricaturist. Date: 1895

Ulysses and His Companions escaping the Sirens, passing between Scylla and Charybdis. Date: circa 1790

Figures of Greek kings from ancient vases
Figures of ancient Greek kings. King dressed like Amamemnon of Homer 1. From ancient Greek vases in the collection of Sir William Hamilton. Figure degli Antichi Re della Grecia

Penelope and her attendants spinning thread
A depiction of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, with her attendants. Penelope sits on a chair at work on a thread. A servant takes away a mirror, and another brings todays cloth

Odysseus presenting his wife Penelope with his bow and quiver of arrows. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789

Busy Bee Date: 1865

MAP / EUROPE / GREECE / HOMER
Map of Ancient Greece, Phrygia and Crete at the time of Homer Date: BC

CIRCE DOES MAGIC
Circe, the Mediterranean witch who features in Homers Odyssey, does magic with spirits and serpents

MAPS / WORLD / HOMER 9BC
The world as known to Homer Date: 9th century BC

Works of Homer, First Edition translated by Chapman
Title page of the First Edition of The Whole Works of Homer translated into English by George Chapman, the main two works being The Iliad and The Odyssey. Date: 1616

Cyclops & Ram
Odysseus escapes from the cave of Polyphemus the Cyclops (who has now been blinded) by clinging to the underbelly of a ram

Lord Byron in the uniform of a Greek patriot
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) in the uniform of a Greek patriot, including a cavalry helmet which he designed himself, based on descriptions of armour in Homers Iliad

Odysseus offering wine to Polyphemus. Mosaic. 3rd-4rd century. Roman Villa. Piazza Armerina. Sicily. Italy

Homer (8th Century B. C. ). Greek epic poet. Portrait in the F
Homer (8th Century B.C.). Greek epic poet. Portrait in the Frontispiece and cover of the Complete Works. Volume First. The Iliad. Set in the Trojan War. Amsterdam, 1743. Colored engraving

Odysseus returns home. Roman Fresco
Odysseus disguised as a beggar returns home. Episode of the Odyssey. Roman Fresco. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy

Circa turning men into beasts
Circe, a powerful magician and daughter of the Sun, turns men into beasts, as described in Homers epic poem, The Odyssey. Date: BCE

Costume design by Homer Conant for oriental showgirl carrying an umbrella, New York, 1920s Date: 1920s

Ulysses and the Sirens. Central detail from the mosaic. Inspired in an episode of the Odyssey by Homer. Roman art

Circe and Swine
Circe the sorceress turns Odysseus men into swine

Penelope & the Suitors
Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, is surprised by her Suitors, whilst weaving at her loom with her maid at her home in Ithaca

Homer with Young Boy
Homer, the blind Greek poet, is guided on his travels by a young boy

Label, Homer Brand Sunkist oranges, California, USA
Label, Homer Brand Sunkist oranges, grown and packed by Orange Heights Orange Association, Corona, California, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Ugolino Martelli (1519-1592). 1536-1537. Portrait by Il Bron
Ugolino Martelli (1519-1592). Florentine aristocrat. Portrait, 1536-1537, by Il Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo) (1503-1572). Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

Siphnian Treasury. 530 BC. Greece
Siphnian Treasury. 530 BC. Relief depicting a scene of Troy War. Ajax and Achilles fighting Aeneas and Memnon. Archaeological Museum. Delphi. Greece

Homer. Bust
Homer (c.8th century). Greek epic poet. Modern copy of a hellenistic original dated between 200-150 BC. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Board of wood inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 of Book I
Wooden board with iron handle inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Iliad by Homer. 1st-2nd century AD. Roman. From Egypt. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Homer / Crowned / Laurels
HOMER Blind Greek poet crowned with laurels in celebration of his Iliad and Odyssey Date: 9th - 8th Century BC

Homer / Bust / Lyre / Anon
HOMER Blind Greek poet Date: 9th - 8th Century BC

Homer / Bust / Simms
HOMER Blind Greek poet Date: 9th - 8th Century BC

Homer / Bust / Baker / Oval
HOMER Blind Greek poet Date: 9th - 8th Century BC

Cowper / Cooper / Abbott
WILLIAM COWPER English poet with Homers Iliad at his side Date: 1731 - 1800

Alexander Pope / Stanton
ALEXANDER POPE Stanton Harcourt, near Oxford, where the English poet translated part of Homers Iliad: his study was in the upper room of the tower Date: 1688 - 1744

Tennyson Barraud
Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) the English poet and Poet Laureate at the age of 79 Date: 1888

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