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researchers will see a lacuna next to odysseus' name in an ancient text and immediately assume it said "and diomedes"

[Polygnotos's Iliupersis: A New Reconstruction]

i find the ghost of you wherever i go

#the text being pausania's Descriptions of Greece #which otherwise only ever mentions diomedes in a passage about aeneas afaik #imagining the researchers being very 'but what about MY GUY?'#whenever diomedes' not onscreen all the other characters should be asking 'where's diomedes'#odysseus #diomedes #polygnotus #pausania #tagamemnon #🏷️

Perseus, watched over by Athena, beheads the sleeping Medusa. Attic red-figure pelike, attributed to Polygnotos; 440s BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Perseus beheads the sleeping Medusa while Athena looks on. Terracotta red-figure pelike (two-handled jar), attr. to Polygnotus; ca. 450-440 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#classics #tagamemnon #Ancient Greece #Classical Greece #classical mythology #Perseus #art #art history #ancient art #Greek art #Ancient Greek art #Classical Greek art #vase painting #red-figure #pelike #Polygnotus #Polygnotos #Metropolitan Museum of Art

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