Ulysses and the Sirens Jon Elster used the name of Draper's painting as the title for his 1979 book about rationality and precommitment. Ulysses and the Sirens Ulysses and the Sirens is a 1909 oil painting by Herbert James Draper measuring 69.25 x 84 in. It is held at the Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull, England. The gallery purchased the painting from Draper in 1910 for £600. Draper also painted a reduced replica that is housed at the Leeds Art Gallery. The subject of the painting is an episode in the epic poem "Odyssey" by Homer in which Ulysses is tormented by
Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews scholarship into people". Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews () was first published in 1978 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. According to S. Lillian Kremer in "Dictionary of Literary Biography", The book is "a compendium of scholarship about Jewish civilization and its relation to the myriad cultures with which Judaism has come into contact." This monograph is divided into four sections with each comprising various chapters: Through Ancient Paganism (Sumer, Egypt, Canaan, Babylonia), Through Classical Paganism (Greece, Rome, Palestine), Through Islam and Christianity (Islam, Christianity), Inside Modern Paganism (Secularism). "School Library