Pallas Athena and the Herdsman's Dogs by Briton Rivière

Pallas Athena and the Herdsman's Dogs

Briton Rivière · 1876 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, USA

Athena appears at Eumaeus’s farm, visible to Odysseus but not to Telemachus. The dogs sense her presence and slink away whining instead of barking. Explore its place in Book XVI of the Odyssey.

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