Listen to this cool song about my travels back to Ithaca
As the great hero Odysseus, I am referenced in many Greek painting, stories and poems.
This picture shows me, as I was tied to the mask of the ship, so I would not be influenced by the Siren's, (also sometimes called Harpies) song. All of my men had earwax blocking there ears, so they would not be tempted to listen to the deadly Siren song. Luckily, with the warning of Circe, me and my men passed by without trouble.
I am maybe most famously referenced in the epic poem, the Iliad written by the greatest poet of his time, Homer. He also wrote the adventures of my journey, The Odyssey. Here is a poem about when I found out that my friend Calypso, had died.
Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso
All their songs are of one hour
Before dawn, when the birds begin.
I sing another.
In helpless midday, at the hour
Even sparrows have no heart to shrill
Comes news . . . Suddenly, the unimaginable
Needs imagination and finds none.
Violet ocean only nothing.
Smoke of thyme and of cedar,
Ornate birds, nothing.
Even a god who came here,
Hearing a sweet voice,
Would find only old fires now,
Brittle in the blackened trees.
She was mast and sail. She was
A stillness pregnant with motion,
Adorable to me as, all my life,
I have hidden a cruel, secret ocean
In sinews and in sleep and cowardice.
She forgave me. Once, she wept for me.
Our child died then, and she is with him.
More recently, I am referenced in the 1997 movie The Odyssey. This movie recounts the hardships and struggles I went through on my journey back to Ithaca, from the long Trojan War.
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