The painting, by the Dolon Painter, is on a Lucanian Red-figure calyx-krater. A calyx-krater is used for mixing wine and water.
Scenes in Art Based on the Odyssey
By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide
Odysseus and Tiresias
Odysseus, Right, Consults the Shade of Tiresias, Center. Eurylochos on the Left. Side A from a Lucanian Red-figured calyx-krater, c. 380 B.C.
Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.
Odysseus consults with the spirit of Tiresias during Odysseus' Nekuia. This scene is based on Book XI of the Odyssey. The capped man on the left is Odysseus' companion Eurylochus.
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