Marble relief depicting the Apotheosis (elevation to divine status) of Homer with Zeus, Apollo and the Muses, signed by the sculptor Archelaus of Priene, ca. 225-205 BC, found in Italy but thought to have been sculpted in Egypt, British Museum : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Marble relief depicting the Apotheosis (elevation to divine status) of Homer with Zeus, Apollo and the Muses, signed by the sculptor Archelaus of Priene, ca. 225-205 BC, found in Italy but thought to have been sculpted in Egypt, British Museum / Following Hadrian
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Homer is crowned by Time and the World, and acclaimed by other personifications. It shows Ptolemy and his wife or sister Arsinoe III standing beside a seated poet, flanked by figures from the Odyssey and Iliad, with the nine Muses standing above them and a procession of worshippers approaching an altar, believed to represent the Alexandrine Homereion. Apollo, the god of music and poetry, also appears, along with a female figure tentatively identified as Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses. Zeus, the king of the gods, presides over the proceedings. The relief vividly demonstrates that the Greeks considered Homer not merely a great poet but also the divinely inspired reservoir of all literature.From the 19th and 20th centuries, treatments of the subject by Wedgewood (based on a 5th-century BC vase misidentified in the 18th century as showing this scene), Ingres and Salvador Dalí survive.A literary treatment of this subject was given by the German poet Leopold Schefer, 1858: Homer’s Apotheose, his very last publication, itself a hexametric epos.Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Homer |
| 撮影日 | 2014-05-10 16:55:40 |
| 撮影者 | Following Hadrian , FRANKFURT, Germany |
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