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Iconic, captioned map of the Trojan War. The drawing is in landscape format. It is organized within a frame drawn in ink. Traces of watercolor and inscriptions are visible in the margins.
The drawing depicts the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin. Icons depict scenes from Homer’s story. From left to right:
– the Lestrygones devour Ulysses’ companions,
– Ulysses and his companions blind the Cyclops Polyphemus, and escape by hiding under the rams,
– Odysseus asks the shadow of the wise Tiresias about his fate,
– Ulysses is tied to the mast of his ship so as not to give in to the sirens’ songs,
– Ulysses’ ships,
– Ulysses’ shipwreck,
– Nausicaa discovers Ulysses asleep on the beach,
– Telemachus is with his mother Penelope, who is lamenting in front of her loom,
– Ulysses is victorious in the bow game with Penelope, who recognizes him as her husband,
– Telemachus visits Nestor,
– the abduction of Helen by Paris,
– the battle between Menelaus and Paris,
– Hector’s farewell to Andromache,
– Patroclus dons Achilles’ armor,
– Achilles kills Hector,
– Priam claims his son’s body from Achilles and offers him a rich ransom,
– Achilles kills Pentheles, queen of the Amazons,
– On his deathbed, Achilles is mourned by Thetis and the Nereids,
– Athena controls the drawing of lots for Achilles’ weapons,
– Neoptolemos, Achilles’ son, receives his father’s weapons to continue the battle,
– the Trojan horse,
– Pâris’s sister is outraged by Ajax in front of Athena’s altar,
– Ajax’s suicide,
– Menelaus takes Helen back to Greece.
The story of the Iliad and the Odyssey unfolds under the gaze of Homer, depicted in the lower part of the drawing.