Plate 8: Ulysses receiving the winds in a leather bag from Aeolus by Bartolomeo Crivellari

Plate 8: Ulysses receiving the winds in a leather bag from Aeolus

Bartolomeo Crivellari · 1756 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, USA

King Aeolus hands Odysseus a great leather bag with every stormy wind tied up inside — a gift meant to blow his ships gently home. Explore its place in Book X of the Odyssey.

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