Odysseus the Great and Powerful - XIII

The blinding of Polyphemus. The skyphos from around 500 BCE shows three men driving a long stick into the right eye of Polyphemus who is lying with part of his upper body propped up by what seems to be the rock of his cave. Polyphemus’ right hand touches the back of his head, while the left hand lies next to his body. The posture expresses the relaxed state of Polyphemus who is caught off-guard. The turning of the Cyclops’ head away from the attackers emphasizes the surprise by which he is taken. The depiction of the Cyclops with two eyes may be due less to an un-Homeric tradition of the saga than to the schema for faces shown frontally. Nonsense inscription above the belly and legs of the reclining Cyclops.

Source: Grethlein J., “Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity”

CARC / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

Attic black-figure skyphos
Attributed to the Theseus Painter
Ca. 490 - 480 BC
Berlin, Antikensammlungen, Inv. V.I. 3283.

Taken on: March 2, 2016

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