The Blind Homer singing his epic poems. Dante Alighieri (Inferno) with the red dress and a serious angry look "communicates" with Virgil on the right side of Homer who looks at Dante "back in the future."

THE ILIAD

The Judgment of Paris by Rubens

Achilles slays Penthesilea by Exekias

Achilles dragging Hector's body

THE ODYSSEY 

BOOK I: A Goddess Intervenes

Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry (note Invocation of Muse as Homer's opening of the Odyssey) 

Kalypso and Odysseus/Ulysses

Kalypso and Odysseus by Bocklin

BOOK II: A Hero's Son Awakens

Penelope and her Suitors by Waterhouse

BOOK III: The Lord of the West Approaches

BOOK IV: The Red-Haired King and His Lady

Menelaus

BOOK V: Sweet Nymph and Open Sea

Kalypso and Hermes/Mercury

Poseidon/Neptune

Poseidon/Neptune

BOOK VI: The Princess at the River

 Odysseus meets Nausicaa

Odysseus and Nausicaa by Rubens (1619)

BOOK VII: Gardens and Firelight

Odysseus in the court of Alcinous by Francesco Hayez (1813-15)

BOOK VIII: The Songs of the Harper

Odysseus among the Phaecians

BOOK IX: New Coasts and Poseidon's Son

Odysseus and the Lotus-eaters

The Blinding of the Cyclopes 

Odysseus by Jacob Jordaens

BOOK X: The Grace of the Witch

Circe

Circe

BOOK XI: A Gathering of Shades

Odysses at the Mouth of Hades by Stewart

Persephone/Proserpine and Hades/Pluto

BOOK XII: Sea Perils and Defeat

Odysseus and the Sirens 

The Siren Song by Draper

The Siren by Waterhouse

Odysseus and Scylla

Charybdis

BOOK XIII: One More Strange Island

Odysseus is put ashore in Ithaca by Van Thulden

BOOK IV: Hospitality in the Forest

Odysseus conversing with Eumaeus

BOOK XV: How They Came to Ithaca

Telemakhos and Athena in disguise

BOOK XVI: Father and Son

Athena watching as Telemachus kisses Odysseus

BOOK XVII: The Beggar at the Manner

The Suitors

BOOK XVIII: Blows and a Queen's Beauty

Penelope

BOOK XIX: Recognitions and a Dream

Penelope and Odysseus

BOOK XX: Signs and a Vision and BOOK XXI: The Test of the Bow and BOOK XXII: Death in the Great Hall

Odysseus toetet die Freier in Schwab

BOOK XXIII: The Trunk of the Olive Tree and Book XXIV: Warriors, Farewell

Odysseus and Penelope reunited