Left: Laertes’ Shroud. Modern recreation of the shroud woven in the Odyssey by Penelope for her fath
Left: Laertes’ Shroud. Modern recreation of the shroud woven in the Odyssey by Penelope for her father-in-law Laertes by Ellen Harlizius-Klück. Displayed at the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke in Munich, April 2011. The shroud motif is from a scene on an Attic red-figure cup of the 5th century BCE, pictured above rightRight: Penelope at Rest. Reconstruction of a Thasian marble statue, probably by Polygnotos, dating to the 5th century BCE. Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke, Munich.The figure’s pose is very similar to the scene on the vase. Penelope holds a spindle in her right hand. Her left hand rests on a stool placed over a wool basket.The fragmentary original was excavated in Persepolis in 1945, and is now at the Archaeological Museum of Tehran. It was probably a gift to Artaxerxes I, the successor of Xerxes, by the Thasians as an act of defiance against the Athenians.Content sources: X and X -- source link
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