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On the main side of the krater Maron is depicted offering Ismaric (from mount Ismaros) wine to Odysseus. To the left, Maron is handing Odysseus, who stands in the center, an askos (sack) that contains the famous wine with which Odysseus got the Cyclops Polyphemus drunk and thus managed to blind him. The two heroes are accompanied by two women: on the right Ampelis (personification of viticulture) holds a horn and on the left Opora (goddess-protector of fruit) holds a wreath in her right hand. The names of the figures are written above them. The painter was probably inspired by a satyr play (type of Attic humorious drama with a chorus of satyrs).
Caption Sicilian red-figured calyx-krater depicting Maron giving Odysseus a sack full of Ismaric wine
Mythic people Odysseus (Hero), Ampelis (Deity), Opora (Deity) ,Maron (Priest, King), Cicones (Mythical people)
Type Clay object
Artist/Creator Maron Painter, Sicilian workshop
Origin Lipari (tomb 402), Sicily
Current position Parco Archeologico delle Isole Eolie, Museo Luigi Bernabò Brea, Lipari (Sicily)
Index number 2297
Dating 340-330 BC
Notes
Museo Archeologico Luigi Bernabo Brea (regione.sicilia.it)
Τσιαφάκη Δ., Η Θράκη στην αττική εικονογραφία του 5ου αι. π.Χ. Προσεγγίσεις στις σχέσεις Αθήνας και Θράκης, Κομοτηνή, 1998, σ. 239.
Bernabò Brea L., Cavalier M. 1965, La necropoli greca e romana nella contrada Diana, Meligunìs LipàraII, Flaccovio, Palermo, p.142
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