Trefoil Oinochoe with Odysseus and the Sirens by Unknown Attic black-figure vase painter

Trefoil Oinochoe with Odysseus and the Sirens

Unknown Attic black-figure vase painter · ca. 525–500 BC · Antikensammlung, Berlin · Berlin, Germany

Painted on a small wine jug when Athens was young, Odysseus rows past the Sirens tied fast to his mast while one of the bird-women swoops overhead. Explore its place in Book XII of the Odyssey.

Open this artwork in the Odyssey Mosaic