Apulian red-figure situla: Odysseus and Diomedes steal the horses of Rhesus

The painting is roughly divided into two registers. In the upper register three Thracians sleep, two on the left, one on the right. They wear long belted tunics with long sleeves and leggings decorated in a zigzag pattern visible beneath. On their heads are pointed hats or hoods. The lower register shows Diomedes (left) and Odysseus (right) stealing two horses. Both men are nude except for their cloaks and carry swords in their right hands. Odysseus is bearded and wears a pointed hat.

Odysseus and Diomedes steal the horses of Rhesus (ca. 360 BC). Apulian red-figure situla by the Lycurgus Painter. A scene from Homer, Odyssey Book 10. Museo Nazionale Archaeologico, Naples. 

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Photo: Marie-Lan Nguyen
Associated Passages
Ovid, Amores 1.9