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The Ship of Odysseus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

A. F. Tilley
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The Siren Vase, an Attic red-figure stamnos by the Siren painter (PL. xvra), was made between 490 and 480 BC, and is now in the British Museum. Odysseus is shown bound by his own order to the mast of his ship, the only man to hear the Sirens’ irresistible song and to survive it. Their ears stopped with beeswax, his crew row stolidly on.

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Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 174 , June 1970 , pp. 100 - 104
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1970

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