The Odyssey

Literary Responses - Demodocus as topic

gathered by John McIlvain

Pre-Trojan War Odysseus Penelope Telemachus Other Women Elpenor Demodocus Argos Bibliography

Image source: http://www.beloit.edu/~classics/main/courses/classics100/museum2/art_museum2.html

Ares and Aphrodite get caught (painting) by Martin Van Heemskerck, 1536

in heavenly realms of hellas dwelt (follow link to e-Text, scroll down)

by e.e. cummings (1894-1962)

Published in 73 poems, 1963 - wonderfully comic retelling of the Hephestus, Aphrodite, Ares story. Cumming's take is...

... thus virtue triumphed over vice
and beauty bowed to ugliness
and logic thwarted life...

Responses to the Odyssey