Odysseus the Great and Powerful - XV
Odysseus, erect on the mast, directly faces three Sirens standing on a rock. The two rowers and the helmsman in the back, however, while looking into the same direction, are far too low to regard the Sirens. Only Odysseus sees them just as he is the only one to hear their song. The three arms with which Odysseus is painted, two bound behind his back, a third reaching out to the Sirens, forcefully express his desire for the object of his gaze.
Source: Grethlein J., “Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity”
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic black-figure oinochoe
Ca. 525 – 500 BC
Berlin, Antikensammlungen, Inv. V.I. 1993.216
Odysseus the Great and Powerful - XV
Odysseus, erect on the mast, directly faces three Sirens standing on a rock. The two rowers and the helmsman in the back, however, while looking into the same direction, are far too low to regard the Sirens. Only Odysseus sees them just as he is the only one to hear their song. The three arms with which Odysseus is painted, two bound behind his back, a third reaching out to the Sirens, forcefully express his desire for the object of his gaze.
Source: Grethlein J., “Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity”
CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic black-figure oinochoe
Ca. 525 – 500 BC
Berlin, Antikensammlungen, Inv. V.I. 1993.216