| Odysseus in Hades | od235flax: "I abode there steadfastly, in the hope that some other haply might still come forth of the warrior heroes who died in the days of old. And I should have seen yet others of the men of former time, whom I was fain to behold, even Theseus and Pirithous, glorious children of the gods, but before that the myriad tribes of the dead came thronging up with a wondrous cry, and pale fear seized me, lest august Persephone might send forth upon me from out the house of Hades the head of the Gorgon, that awful monster." (Hom.Od.11.627). John Flaxman (1755 – 1826). |
