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The Goddess With the White Arms, Hera, plate 30 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Spear-Famed Automedon, plate 53 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Blind Homer, Chanting, plate 49 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Homer, plate one from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Andromache, The Daughter of High-Hearted Eetion, plate ninteen from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Apollo The Sun God, plate 50 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Hermes, plate 48 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Artemis, The Lady of Wild Beasts, plate 42 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Powerful Agamemnon, With Eyes and Head Like Zeus, plate four from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Aphrodite - She Then Went Away to Summon Helen, plate eight from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

The Fierce Wild Boar with the Shining Teeth, plate 24 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Diomedes of the Great War Cry, plate fifteen from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

All Night Long the Phantom of Unhappy Patroklos Stood Over Achilleus, plate 44 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

The Son of Kronos Caught His Wife in His Arms, plate 31 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Poseidon - I When The Lots Were Shaken Drew the Grey Sea to Live in Forever, plate 33 from Drawings for the Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Now Death and Fate Have Closed in Upon Him, plate 36 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Achilleus, Gathering the Fury Upon Him, Sprang on the Trojans With a Ghastly Cry, plate 40 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Priam, plate 43 from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)

Menelaos in His Wrath, plate six from Drawings for The Iliad
Meriden Gravure Company (American, 20th century) after Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) published by Delphic Arts (American, 20th century)