Part 2 of Apotheosis of Homer
Apotheosis (αποθέωση): The elevation of a person to the status of a god.
21) (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Moliere, 1622 – 1673, French Comedian ( Detail )
22) Jean Racine (December 22, 1639 – April 21, 1699), French writer, poet, “Andromaque”, Phèdre etc. ( Detail )
23) Corneille, 1606 – 1684, French Author ( Detail )
24) Poussin, 1594 – 1665, French Painter ( Detail )
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-- )
29) 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 Portait
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 Portait
38)Menander Portait
39)Demosthenes Portait
40) Sophocles Portait
41) Aeschylus Portait
42) Herodotus Portait
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 (See a pottery with Linos and Mousaios)
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