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#Odysseus

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#Odysseus is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 207 people shared 324 posts with it — around 11 a day. Activity is down 33% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 19 with 22 posts.

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Anthony Majanlahti
@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
about 9 hours ago
Found in an #Esquiline domus in 1848, this mid-C1 BCE fresco shows #Odysseus' men meeting the #Laestrygonian princess. The lounging figures are not mere mortals; they are Greek-labelled personifications of the living landscape, like the shores (Aktai). #FrescoFriday
FRESCO OF THE LAESTRYGONIANS, C. 60-40 BCE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

This segment of the famous Odyssey Landscapes was discovered in 1848 during excavations of an elite domus on the Via Graziosa (modern Via Cavour) on the Esquiline Hill. Dating to the mid-first century BCE, these Second Style frescoes originally adorned the upper portion of a wall, framed by painted red pilasters to create the illusion of looking outward through a grand portico. The scene depicts an episode from Book 10 of the Odyssey: Odysseus' men encounter the daughter of the Laestrygonian king, Antiphates, as she draws water from the spring Artacia. The lounging figures surrounding the action are Hellenistic personifications of the geography, like Aktai (the shores) on the lower left. Interestingly, the artist labelled the three scouts in Greek. While Eurybates correctly matches Odysseus' herald in the epic, the names Antilochos and Anchialos are not in Homer's account of this scene, showing the painter embellished the text with familiar names to give the anonymous crewmen epic gravitas.
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