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Carole Raddato / 1 item

N 6 B 287 C 0 E Oct 27, 2024 F Nov 13, 2024
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The slab depicts the stealing of the weapons of the Homeric hero Philoctetes, who, according to Euripides, had been abandoned in Lemnos.

Philoctetes, rather old and ill, is represented in a bent position inside a cave. In the background, behind the cave’s entrance, two male heads are visible. The first one, with a thick beard and a conical pilos, is identified as Odysseus. The other one with the thick hair styled in locks and a beard, possibly Diomedes, dispossesses Philoctetes of his weapons.

www.researchgate.net/publication/322617175_Philoktetes_in...


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