A scene painted by the late Peter Connolly: Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, aims his great bow at a line of axes.  The suitors have no idea what's about to (literally) hit them.

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Yesterday I drove down to Pacific Palisades to see the renovated Getty Villa.  I took many photographs, some of which did not come out, but managed to score shots of the Getty's small Aegean Bronze Age collection. 

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