"Ulysses' Homecoming," (1842) Honoré Daumier
. . . the end of the Odyssey will not see Odysseus comfortably lodged in Penelope's bed—as in this burlesque representation by the French painter Daumier—back to reality from Calypso’s fantasy world! He must undertake another journey, one to placate the sea-god Poseidon, foretold in his visit to the prophet Tiresias in the realm of the dead, a journey to a people who do not know the sea or ships, who do not eat salted food, and who will mistake his shouldered oar for a winnowing fan. When, and if, he finds them, Tiresias had told him, "then fix in the earth your balanced oar, make fit offerings to Lord Poseidon—ram, bull, and buck boar, mounter of sows—and on return home, holy hecatombs in due order to all wide heaven's deathless gods. Your death will come to you out of the sea, ever so gently, to finish you weary with unwrinkled age, a prosperous people around you" (Odyssey 11. 129-37).