Strangers: Gods Entertained - Walter Crane

Strangers: Gods Entertained - Walter CraneA print of Walter Crane's Strangers: Gods Entertained an illustration from Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (Houghton Mifflin, 1892), depicting the moment when the elderly couple Philemon and Baucis welcome the gods Zeus and Hermes into their cottage, not knowing who their guests truly are. The myth is preserved in Ovid's Metamorphoses: the gods, walking the earth in disguise, are turned away from every door in Phrygia except one

head and forepaws together

Benvenuto Cellini's bronze Perseus in the Loggia dei Lanzi is the defining Renaissance image of the triumph

and leads the men who carry Achilles' body out of the fighting

warm ochres

After Achilles' death

A print of Aphrodite rising from the sea — one of the oldest and most-painted subjects of Greek mythology

the raised thunderbolt

the son of Helios

Whether "Homer" was a single poet

The figure sits exhausted after a fight

the broken chain of Ottoman rule at her feet

3 metres) exactly matches the height from the floor to the oculus