Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Achelous / With other figures

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 319-322 (also Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIV, 295-296): Circe touches Ulysses with her rod, he attacks her with his sword

Further details

Ulysses charging for Circe; On the lid: Achelous with to male figures holding snakes.

Artist or creator

Etruscan

Date

300 BC (circa)

Location

Orvieto, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Orvieto (Found at Torre San Severo)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

E. Galli, 'The Etruscan Sarcophagus of Torre San Severo in Orvieto', Art and Archaeology, VI, 5 (November 1917), pp.229-34

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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