0741OdysseusSirens

0741OdysseusSirens_Draper

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Ovid Met. 10.1-84
Apollodorus Libr. 3.2.2

Herbert James Draper, "Ulysses and the Sirens," painting first exhibited 1909. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (UK).

image at right from Wikipedia Commons

Kestner: "an artistic commentary on the threatening role of women [i.e. women as sexual predators]. Odysseus' life becomes for Draper a paradigm of men's surviving the dangers of female predatory sexuality." p. 289 p. 5.20

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.