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LITERATURE

Ancient / Euripides / Cyclops
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 371-394: Ulysses and his comrades blind Polyphemus

Further details

The presence of Satyrs suggests that this does not directly illustrate the Odyssey but rather Euripides's satyr play Cyclops

Artist or creator

Cyclops Painter (active Lucania, late 5th century BC)

Date

420 BC (circa) - 410 BC

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 1947,0714.18)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of ancient Greek art, London, 1904, no. H 48

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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