Chapterhead for Opening of Chapter One of Homer’s Odysseydetails

Chapterhead for Opening of Chapter One of Homer’s Odyssey

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“Sing to me a story of the wandering man, Muse” opens the famous poem. Well, it’s in Ancient Greek actually, and people translate the opening in many different ways.

Here we see a person standing, pointing, gazing at an older man who is seated, while others gather round with harp and goblet and rod of asclepius and even a naked woman on the left and a naked young man on the far right in this assemblage of eleven people.

The woodcut was used at the start of a chapter, to help people find the chapter openings and also to give an atmosphere; there is a border of stylized repeated leaves, in this case to give a Greek feeling to the illustration.

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