José Rodeiro Illustrations for Homer’s Cypria # 4, sepia pen-&-ink, 18” x 24,” 2009.

This series of drawing affirm Rodeiro’s facility with freehand linear rendering. Each image reveals Amnesis-aspects of two missing (lost) works of literature: Homer’s Cypria and Sophocles’s Troilos (Troilus), whose plot revolves around Achilles’s rapacious Ménage-á-trois love -affair with both Prince Troilos of Troy and his sister/’lover’ Princess Polyxena. We know that Achilles eventually in rage killed both of these children of King Priam of Troy. Rodeiro’s illustrations (of this epic) suggests a romantic motive for the murders. Lastly, these two missing works of literature by Homer and Sophocles function as literary “LOST OBJECTS.”