Ulysses and Nausicaa watched by Athena by Nausicaa painter

Ulysses and Nausicaa watched by Athena
Attic red-figure amphora from Vulci (c. 440 BCE). Antikensammlungen 2322, Munich.

  • A naked Ulysses ineffectually covering himself with a branch, approaches a group of young women washing clothes, some of whom start to flee when they see him.
  • Clothes have been hung to dry in the tree beside him and one girl, who has not yet seen him, continues to wring a garment.

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