Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XXII: Punishment of the suitors and unfaithful servants / vv. 187-193: Melantheus, who supplied the suitors with arms, is bound and hung by his wrists
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XXII: Punishment of the suitors and unfaithful servants / vv. 204-238: Minerva appears and gives Ulysses courage for the fight against the suitors

Further details

At the left Eumaeus and Philoetius overwhelm Melantheus and bind him, on the left they suspend Melantheus (apparently upside down), between Minerva adressing Ulysses

Artist or creator

Hellenistic

Date

2nd century BC

Location

Berlin, Antikensammlung (Pergamonmuseum and Altes Museum) (inv. 3161 n)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Carl Robert, Homerische Becher, Fünfzigstes Programm zum Winckelmannsfeste, Berlin 1890, pp. 1-22, p. 8

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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