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LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XXII: Punishment of the suitors and unfaithful servants / vv. 310-329: The seer Leiodes asks for mercy and is killed by Ulysses
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XXII: Punishment of the suitors and unfaithful servants / vv. 330-356: The singer Phemius begs for mercy and is spared at Telemachus's behest
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XXII: Punishment of the suitors and unfaithful servants / vv. 357-374: The herald Medon, hidden in a cow's skin, crawls out and begs Telemachus for mercy

Further details

At the left Medon still half-covered in a cowskin asking for mercy, in the centre death of Leiodes, at the right Phemius with his lyre

Artist or creator

Hellenistic

Date

2nd century BC

Location

Berlin, Antikensammlung (Pergamonmuseum and Altes Museum) (inv. 3161 r, lost in World War II)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Carl Robert, Homerische Becher, Fünfzigstes Programm zum Winckelmannsfeste, Berlin 1890, pp. 1-22, p. 14

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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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