JMW Turner - Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus

Few other artists could capture such a sense of Homer’s Epic quite like the British master JMW Turner

Imagining a scene from the The Odyssey - we see Odysseus (otherwise known as Ulysses) and his men sailing away from the island where Polyphemus, a one-eyed giant, had held them captive.

But even for viewers completely unfamiliar with Homer’s original stor…