Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Throughout antiquity and beyond, the stories of the gods and the adventures of heroes have excited the imagination and nourished the memory of philosophers, poets and artists, this is how mythology and ancient legends become sources of inspiration, accompany history and interpret it in a different way.These stories came to life in artistic works and in particular mosaics that refer to a specific moment of a historical or mythical episode. A mosaic in Cherchell depicting an episode of Ulysses' journey; Ulysses and the Sirens, decorated the basin of a fountain found in a Roman villa and returns to a known Homeric scene.The story of Ulysses is that of a man who goes from war to peace, from hatred to love, from chaos to harmony, from exile to returning home; he goes from a bad life to a good life. It is therefore not only a magnificent epic, but it is the matrix of a thought rich in symbolism which answers the question of the meaning of life.
Author: Zahra Ghouas
Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405929978