This image shows the return of Odysseus. According to the Greek legend as told by Homer in the "Odyssey," when the hero Odysseus returned home to Ithaca from the Trojan War, a journey that had taken him 20 years, he found his palace overrun with suitors vying for the hand of his wife. Here the suitor Antinous prepares to hit Odysseus (in the guise of a beggar) with a footstool.

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