Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Phemius.
On screen
TELEVISION · 1997READ MORE ↗
The Odyssey
Andrei Konchalovsky
Konchalovsky's miniseries keeps the palace bard among Odysseus' household — Phemius as the singer spared when the suitors fall.
TELEVISION · 1968READ MORE ↗
L'Odissea
Franco Rossi
Rossi's Italian-Yugoslav Odyssey stages the Ithacan court where Phemius sings the returns from Troy against Penelope's grief.
In play
WORK · c. 8th century BCREAD MORE ↗
Odyssey
Homer
Homer's self-taught bard of Odysseus' house — forced to sing for the suitors, spared at Telemachus' word, then ordered to play wedding songs loud enough to mask the slaughter.
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Phemius
Son of Terpes, minstrel of Ithaca — the Odyssey's figure of the poet who sings unwillingly and lives.