Omeros Allusions & Cultural References

Literary and Philosophical References

• Philoctetes (throughout)
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (II.ii.13; II.iii.15) 
• Dante Alighieri, Inferno (X.ii.59; XIII.ii.74; XIII.iii.75)
• Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio (XIII.ii.74) 
• William Shakespeare, The Tempest (VIII.ii.45)
• William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (XIII.i.72) 
• Myth of Sisyphus (XIII.ii.74)
• Homer, Iliad (throughout)
• Circe (XI.i.64; XVIII.i.96; XXIX.iii.155) 
• Cyclops (II.ii.13; XIX.iii.102; LIX.iii.299)
• Judith 1.15 (XVIII.ii.97) 
• Susanna (XVIII.ii.97) 
• Harry H. Breen, St. Lucia: Historical, Statistical and Descriptive (XIX.i.99-100)
• William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1 (Mortimer and Glendower) (XIX.i.101)
• St. Lucy (XXIX.ii.154) 
• Vladimir Mayakovsky,"A Cloud in Trousers" (XXXIII.i.170) 
• John Milton, Paradise Lost (XXXIII.ii.172) 
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick (XXXVI.i.184)
• Statue of Queen Boadicea or Boudicca (XXXVIII.ii.196)
• James Joyce, Ulysses (XXXIX.iii.200)
• James Joyce, Dubliners—"The Dead" (XXXIX.iii.201)
• Henry David Thoreau (XLI.iii.209) 
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (XLI.iii.209)
• Transcendentalism (XLI.iii.209) 
• Adam Zagajewski (XLII.i.212)
• Zbigniew Herbert (XLII.i.212)
• Czeslaw Milosz (XLII.i.212)
• Telemachus (LII.iii.263)
• The Judgment of Paris (LV.ii.275)
• Charon (LVII.i.285)
• Hephaestus (LVIII.i.289)
• Ogun (LVIII.i.289)
• Xenophon, Anabasis (LIX.ii.297)

Historical References

• Marcus Garvey (Chapter XIII)
• Battle of the Saints (throughout) 
• Admiral George Rodney, The Marlborough (XV.i.84) 
• Comte de Grasse, Ville de Paris (XV.ii.85, XV.iii.86)
• Battle of the Somme, World War I (XVI.i.87)
• The Anglo-Boer War, or the Second Boer War 
• Battle of Agincourt (XVI.i.87)
• Zouaves (XVI.i.87)
• William Wilberforce (XXIX.iii.156) 
• Hiroo Onoda (XXXIII.ii.171)
• Manifest Destiny (XXXIV.i.175)
• Catherine (or Caroline) Weldon (throughout) 
• Trail of Tears (XXXV.i.177)
• Colonel (or Buffalo Bill) Cody's Circus (XXXV.ii.179)
• Pope Alexander VI and the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas (XXXVI.ii.191)
• The Troubles, Northern Ireland (XXXIX.i)
• The Ghost Dance (1890) (XLII.iii.213)
• Wounded Knee Massacre (XLII.iii.213)

Pop Culture References

• Seven Seas Cod Liver Oil (III.ii.18)
• The Beatles, "Yesterday" (VI.ii.34)
• Bob Marley, "Buffalo Soldier" (XXXI.i.161)
• Winslow Homer, "The Gulf Stream" (XXXVI.ii.185)
• Marcel Duchamp, "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" (LX.iii.205)
• Dada (LX.iii.205)
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (LXI.i.304)
• William Etty (LXI.i.304)