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Boetian black-figure pottery skyphos (wine-cup), found at Thebes, 4th century BC, Odysseus at sea on a raft of amphoras, Ashmolean Museum

Comical figure of Boreas, the north wind, blowing Odysseus across the sea on a raft made of amphorae. The hero holds a trident. The head of the wind god with bloated cheeks in the corner of the scene is also found in Roman era mosaics and post-classical maps. www.theoi.com/Gallery/T28.5.html

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Uploaded on January 21, 2013
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