LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Cyrce

Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 440 BC Attributed to the Persephone Painter Above, obverse: Odysseus pursuing Circe Above, reverse: women and king Below, obverse: man between women Below, reverse: youth and women Accession # 41.83 The primary and the most interesting scene on this two-row krater shows Odysseus pursuing the enchantress Circe. In the air between them are Circe's magic wand and the skyphos (deep drinking cup) that contains the potion with which she transforms men into animals. Behind Odysseus, two of his men with features of a boar and a horse or mule gesticulate toward him. The pursuit below may also be mythological. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.