didoofcarthage:Marble figure of Odysseus. Roman, about 25 B.C. or A.D. 125, in Greek Archaic style o
didoofcarthage:Marble figure of Odysseus. Roman, about 25 B.C. or A.D. 125, in Greek Archaic style of 490 B.C. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.Description by Cornelius C. Vermeule in Eye of the Beholder:This Odysseus is a Roman pedimental figure, meant to be seen in the setting of a wide triangle on a small building such as a shrine in the Gardens of Sallust in Rome, where the statue was found in 1885. The complete composition might have shown the Palladium on an altar or pedestal in the center, with Diomedes creeping up from the other side. Or perhaps Athena herself stood in the middle of the pediment, as was often the case in Archaic Greek sculpture, helping the thieves to hasten Troy’s fall.Pool playing Odysseus ;) -- source link
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