Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XVIII: Ulysses, still disguised as beggar, defeats Irus / vv. 8-33: Irus challenges Ulysses for a fistfight, Ulysses accepts

Further details

Vas painting showing Ulysses and Irus, the man between is either Telemachus or Antinous

Artist or creator

Ancient Greek

Date

5th century BC - 4th century BC

Location

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (inv. IV, 5, C, 190)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Otto Jahn, Vasenbild, welches Odysseus und Iros vorstellt, Berichte über die Verhandlungen der königlich sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philosophisch-historische Klasse 6 (1854), 49-52

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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