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Painting by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo showing crowds pulling the large wooden Trojan Horse into the city of Troy, with excited figures and ancient buildings in the background.

Engraved bust of Homer, a bearded man in a conical cap, overlaid on a painting of a galley with rowers and winged figures.

Neo-Assyrian clay tablet from the 7th century BC inscribed with dense cuneiform writing, known as the Flood Tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh, displayed in the British Museum.

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Engraved bust of Homer, a bearded man in a conical cap, overlaid on a painting of a galley with rowers and winged figures.

Telling the Story of Homer's Odyssey with Translator Emily Wilson

“Tell me, Muse…”

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Painting by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo showing crowds pulling the large wooden Trojan Horse into the city of Troy, with excited figures and ancient buildings in the background.

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo: The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy

Oil on canvas by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1760; in the National Gallery, London.

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Neo-Assyrian clay tablet from the 7th century BC inscribed with dense cuneiform writing, known as the Flood Tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh, displayed in the British Museum.

Epic of Gilgamesh

The Flood Tablet, 11th cuneiform tablet in a series relating the Gilgamesh epic,...

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