A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 508
ised him immortality if he would remain with her, butafter eight years he longed for his home, and Athena (Minerva) re-quested Hermes to carry to Calypso a command from Zeus to letUlysses go. Calypso showed him how to make a raft, and ineighteen days he came to Scheria, the home of the… … Ulysses and the Sirens. Nausicaa and her maidens. She was the daugrhter of Alcinous andArete. She took him to her fathers palace, where the minstrelDemodocus sang the fall of Troy. The hero wept, and when ques-tioned of the reason of his grief, related his whole history. Thenking Alcinous prepared…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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