Odysseus, as a humble beggar, presents himself before Penelope who is sitting, pensive. The other figures of the scene are probably Telemachus, Laertes and the swineherd Eumaeus. 'Melian' terraccotta relief. 460-450 BC. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 30.11.9. Kakridis, J. Th., Elliniki Mythologia, vol. 5: Troikos Polemos, Ekdotiki Athinon, Athens 1986, p. 275, fig. 214. © Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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