Tag: space

• Mapping the Underworld: Space, Text, and Imaginary Landscapes in Antiquity

  

  One of the foremost painters of the mid 5th century BCE, Polygnotus, was allegedly commissioned by the Cnidian people to paint a clubhouse at Delphi. One of the themes was Odysseus’ ascension into the underworld, described in Book 11 of Homer’s Odyssey (the so called  νέκυια). However, Pausanias (10.28-31) reports that the painter took many liberties and mixed […]

  sarahemilybond

  October 25, 2015

  color, maps, text

  caesar, cartography, hell, inferno, Maps, space, spatial humanities, tolkien, twin peaks