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| Odysseus’s wife Penelope leaves the palace hall, each suitor voicing a prayer that he might sleep with her. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated July 5th 2008. |
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| Odysseus’s son Telemachus is berated at the Ithacan town assembly by Eurymachus and the other suitors. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated July 27th 2008. |
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| Telemachus, encouraged by Athene, questions Nestor at a sacrificial feast in Pylos.. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated July 17-18th 2008. |
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| In his palace in Lacedaemon, Menelaus, with winged words, describes to Telemachus how he and his men wrestled with The Old Man of the Sea on Pharos who resisted them by changing into a tree. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated July 12-13th 2008. |
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| The nymph Calypso, with her team of maids out of sight, comes to tell Odysseus that his ten year imprisonment as her sex slave is over by decree from Olympus. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated July 22ndh 2008. |
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| Washed up on the shore of the Phaeacians, Odysseus receives instructions from princess Naussica, on the beach to do washing with her maids, of how to get to her father’s palace. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated July 7th-9h 2008. |
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| In the palace, Odysseus is questioned by king Alcinous and his wife, queen Arête. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated July13h 2008. |
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| Odysseus weeps, observed only by king Alcinous, as the blind bard Demodocus sings the tale of the wooden horse and the fall of Troy. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated July19h 2008. |
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| Odysseus with four of his crew blind the Cyclops Polyphemus in his cave. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 24th July 2008. |
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| On the floating island of Aeolia, Odysseus is banished by Aeolius as cursed by the gods after returning a second time. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 3rd July 2008. |
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| In Hades, Odysseus is approached by the shades of dead warriors, who must drink the blood of a slaughtered sheep to speak the truth. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 30th July 2008. |
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| Six of Odysseus’s crew are seized by the heads of the monster Scylla as they steer around the whirlpool of Charybdis. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 4th July 2008. |
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| Odysseus blesses the Phaeacian aristocracy who are giving him passage home with gifts. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 6th July 2008. |
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| About to sail from Pylos, Telemachus is approached by a stranger for safe passage, the outlaw prophet Theoclymenus. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 10th July 2008. |
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| In the palace on Ithaca, Penelope justly accuses the suitors of plotting to murder her son Telemachus. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 12-13th July 2008. |
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| On the road into town with Eumaeus, Odysseus is kicked in the hip by Melanthius, lackey of the suitors, who is bringing them some goats. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 15th July 2008. |
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| Melantho and other disloyal maids jeer at Odysseus as disguised as a tramp in his own house, he feeds the brazier. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 19th-28th July 2008. |
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| The old maid, Eurycliea, recognises Odysseus’s boar-scar while washing his feet and turns to tell Penelope, but the latter is distracted by Athena and Odysseus makes to grab the maid’s neck and scare her into keeping his identity secret. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 19th-28th July 2008. |
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| The loutish suitor Ctesippus hurls a cow’s hoof at Odysseus who ducks adroitly. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 20th July 2008. |
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| To the suitor’s shame and horror, Odysseus completes the test they had failed, stringing the great bow and shooting through the twelve axes. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 23rd July 2008 |
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| Barring the exit, Odysseus shoots Antinous through the neck, beginning the massacre of the suitors. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 25th July 2008 |
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| As his faithful followers dance to delay news of the massacre reaching the Ithacan town, Odysseus recounts his travels to his wife Penelope. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 26th-27th July 2008 |
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| In Laertes’s lonely orchard he is approached by his son Odysseus, whom he does not recognise having not seen him for twenty years. Pencil on A4 card signed and dated 29th July 2008 |
POSTED BY DAVID BYERS BROWN
