Boeotian black-figure skyphos depicting Odysseus crossing the sea on amphorae
This 4th c. BCE Boeotian skyphos (drinking cup) depicts a comical take on Odysseus crossing the sea on a raft of amphorae, blown by a cartoonish Boreas, the north wind. Odysseus face is very much like a comic mask from Greek theater, and he has the paunch and dangling phallus of a comic actor. His trident makes him look like a poor man’s Poseidon.
Found at Thebes
Ashmolean Museum (AN1986-1908.G.249)
Boeotian black-figure skyphos depicting Odysseus crossing the sea on amphorae
This 4th c. BCE Boeotian skyphos (drinking cup) depicts a comical take on Odysseus crossing the sea on a raft of amphorae, blown by a cartoonish Boreas, the north wind. Odysseus face is very much like a comic mask from Greek theater, and he has the paunch and dangling phallus of a comic actor. His trident makes him look like a poor man’s Poseidon.
Found at Thebes
Ashmolean Museum (AN1986-1908.G.249)