New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-14
THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES
MARCH OF HOMER'S HEROES

whole people to do it honor, the Mistick
Krewe won the attention and admiration of
greater audience than ever before. The
procession began to move about eight
O'Clock, and proceeded according to the fol-
lowing order:
HOmer,s Iliad and Odyssey.
Illuminated Doric Temple.
HOmers Bust.
THE ILIAD.
Eelen and Paris in clouds protected by Venue
Briseis Nsstor.
Petroclus Ajax
Diomed In his war chariot
henelsus. Therstea.
Cassandra Helepus
Diana Ans f''"p5i Phabu. Apollo.
Mars driving q chariot.
Hector Agenor. AcAmAs.
Juno recumbent.
Jupiter Minerva
Aurora rising from the clouds.
Neptune in a shell on a rock by the Sea.
Attendant coach driven by Naides-
THE ODYSSEY.
POlyphemus, King Of Cyclops
in the act of rending one of Ulysses Companions
Surrounded by Goats.
Circe mounted on Throne
in the act of Transforming the Companions into
Swine.
Pluto mounted surrounded by Harpies
The Syrens beguiling Ulysses
He chained to = Ship.
Chary bdis and Scylls.
Calypso OBTAINING Ulysses.
Proteus at their feet.
Mercury notifying Calypso to send Ulysses forward
King and Queen Alcinous.
Eausicaa at their feet.
Household of Ulysses.
Telemachus. son; Eumess. swine herd; Eurycles
nurse; TheOnuis, the bard.
Penelope weaving web. surrounded by her sutors.
Pillar with Ulysses arms pendant.
Battle OF Frogs and Mice.
King Puicheeks commanding his Army Of Frogs in
Council.
King Chawba in Council, Commanding His
Army of Mice.
The Peacemakers, Crabs Intervening
King Pontchartrain.
Hard Shell, Soft Shell, EchelOu, Gumbo.
Caster and Pollu1, twin brothers, Palm. Dryope
Esculaplus.
The DOric Temple.
First in the procession, as emblematic of
the times when Homer wrote, we find an
illuminated Doric temple, built in the most
approved style, and following Homer's
animated bust" the lofty brow showing
itself as the seat of poetry and reason, the
expressive eyes showing the abode of manly
beauty. which no one who has read the
works of this first bard can fail to accord
the father of his art The DOric temple
passes away, but then comes a picture,
another unreal procession in the
minds of the lookers-on of fiuted col
umns, vestibules, entablatures, corridors in
which the pillars rise in number like the
trees of the forest in height straight as the
pine and all the wonders Grecian art has
wrought, leaving behind reflection of how
much we all owe to these Achaians, as
Homer calls them, of what is beautiful and
true.
Paris and Helen and the Casus BelIi.
The niad is the "Siege of Troy" or the
poetic record Of the Grecian confederate
army which moved against Troy, the cause
of the great quarrel being the elopement of
Helen, wife of Menelaus, with Paris, son of
Priam, King of Troy; and before the "de-
claration of war; by the confederate kings
of Greece, under the leadership of Agamem-
nOn ten years elapse.
| Upon Helen had been bestowed the fatal
gift of irresistible beauty; the prince
whom she captivated, Paris or Alexander,
Priam's son. The birth of this young
gentleman, who was to raise such row
among his people, was attended, like the
births of all extraordinary men, with unto
ward events. Hecuba, his mother, dreamed
she had brought a tre-brand into the
world (no doubt it was true), and terrible
oracles afflicted the souls of the faithful, and
foretold for the youngster a career of mis-
fortune for his country. Under the full in
spiraton of these prophecies the infant was
exposed on Mount Ida SO as to insure his
death while a child, without incurring
the guilt of blood. This plan failed
In the solitudes of the mountain the child
grew up, boy of wondrous beauty, the
favorite of Venus. There he was called
upon to decide to whom the prize of beauty,
the golden apple thrown by DiscorG into
the feast of the Immortals, with that legend
on it, should be awarded. Juno, Venus and
Minerva appeared as competitors for the
prize-Juno offering him power, Minerva
wisdom, Venus the lovelest woman upon
earth. Venus got the apple, and Paris OBJ
tanned her gift, the loveliest woman. 1t
was Helen, Venus taking little into account
that she had husband already Paris set
ont on his travels and left the nymph
Gnone alone, and proceeded to Sparta.
where, at the court of Menelaus, the hus-
band of Helen, he is received as guest.
King Menelaus leaves Paris still an inmate
of his palace, and, unsuspicious, makes a
voyage to Crete. While he is away, young
Paris carries off Helen, and, having an eye
to business, loads his ships with the spoils
of the Spartan court; and so Paris and
Helen arrive in Troy, are received by Priam,
and Notwithstanding the prophecy of Cas-
sandra, who foretells that Mr.. Paris will
bring down the house upon them, enter
tains his son and wife.
This outrage rouses all Greece to arms,
and the brother kings Of Menelaus swear
vengeance. Menelaus returns to his de-
serted home and his barren treasures. and
nothing is left but to avenge the insult to
his house. His first appeal is to Agamem-
non, King of Argos and Mycene, the
suzerain of all the brother kings, sons of
Atrens, Of the house of Pelops. In this
muster of the brother kings, Odysseus, or
Ulysses, as he is better known, "wen