Minerva Asking Jupiter for the Happiness of Ulysses or Minerva Questions Jupiter on the Destiny of Ithaca by Felice Giani

Minerva Asking Jupiter for the Happiness of Ulysses or Minerva Questions Jupiter on the Destiny of Ithaca

Felice Giani · 1802–1805 · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · New York, USA

Giani sketches Minerva—Athena’s Roman name—appealing to Jupiter, as the goddess asks Zeus to remember the stranded Odysseus and let the homecoming begin. Explore its place in Book I of the Odyssey.

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