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Part 2 of Apotheosis of Homer

Apotheosis (αποθέωση): The elevation of a person to the status of a god.

1) (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Moliere, 1622 – 1673, French Comedian

22) Jean Racine (December 22, 1639 – April 21, 1699), French writer, poet, “Andromaque”, Phèdre etc.

23) Corneille, 1606 – 1684, French Author

24) Poussin, 1594 – 1665, French Painter

25) William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616

26) Torquato Tasso, 1544 – 1595

27) Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 27.1.1756 -5.12.1791 (died probably from typhoid fever). Although he died when he was 25 years old he produced 600 works. He first produced the complete work in his mind and then he wrote it as the original manuscripts have very few corrections. Work Idomeneo is influenced by the story of Homer of Idomeneus of Crete.

28) Dante Alighieri, 13.5.1265 – 14.9.1321 (Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey-- )

9) Virgil, (Publius Vergilius Maro) (15.10.70 BC –19 BC) Roman poet

30) Peisistratus the Athenian tyrant who commissioned the first standard written editions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

31) Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Roman poet, 65 – 8 BC

32) Lycurgus, Greek legislator; author of laws and institution of Sparta.

33) Raphael, why is he choosen? Maybe because Ingres was inspired by Raphael's School of Athens

34) Sappho

35) Alcibiades

36) Apelles, probably the most important Greek painter born about 370 BC in Colophon. He studied at Ephesus and spent 12 years at Sikyon. He worked for Alexander the Great and his father Philip. None of his works survived! Apelles used to show his pictures to the public listening to comments. A shoemaker once faulted the painter for a sandal with one loop too few, which Apelles corrected. The shoemaker, emboldened by this acceptance of his views, then criticized the subject's leg. According to Pliny Apelles replied to this that the shoemaker should not judge beyond his sandals. He is also famous for saying: “Not a day without a line”, i.e. do something every day! In the School of Athens of Raphael Apelles is shown as a self-Portrait of Raphael, who was called the new Apelles.

37) Euripides

38) Menander

39) Demosthenes

40) Sophocles

41) Aeschylus

42) Herodotus

43) Orpheus

44) Linos, A Bard of Boeotian Thebes, the music-teacher of Herakles who was slain by the hero in a fit of rage. According to some, he was a son of Apollon by the Mousa Kalliope or by the Mousa Ourania (though in other versions, his father was not Apollon but the Pierian King Oiagros by Kalliope; and the hero Amphimaros by Ourania

45) ?

Dali's version of the Apotheosis of Homer in 1944/45. What happened? The war in Europe probably influenced this work. The European culture almost destroyed, Homer's influence reduced. The information I have from a discussion forum: Dali painted it in four months by working on it one hour a day. He said of it "This is the triumph of all that is impossible to express except by an ultra-concrete image." He also said that: “this is a detailed narration of the world of blind-people”

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A work maybe inspired by the Apotheosis: The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ, Jean-Léon Gérôme. An allegorical painting.

See also: Maecenas Presenting the Liberal Arts to Emperor Augustus, Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), c. 1745, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Homer personifying poetry visits Augustus.

Archelaos and his work: The Apotheosis of Homer

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