Closeup of a Lekythos depicting a siren trying to tempt Odysseus in a scene from Homer's Odyssey Eretria Late 6th century BCE Clay

Odysseus bound himself to the mast of his ship to resist the Sirens' seductive and deadly song. This vase for funerary oil is part of a series of Attic vessels depicting Homeric legends from the Odyssey. It is part of the permanent collections of the Natiional Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.

Photographed at the exhibit "The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great" at The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.

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Taken on: March 24, 2016

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