Gardner, Percy: The principles of Greek art (London, 1924)

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death of Orpheus at the hands of Thracian women,1 but the
dress which Greek artists give to the peoples of Asia Minor,
Phrygians, Persians, and Scythians. In the foreground Odys-
seus, wearing sailor's cap and chlamys, with drawn sword in
his hand, leads away the horses of Rhesus, and Diomedes, also

Fig. 95. —Vase at Berlin.

with drawn sword, walks beside him. It will be remembered
that in Homer the two heroes divide the task before them;
Diomedes is to slay the sleeping Thracians while Odysseus
carries off the noble horses of Rhesus; each thus acts according
to his nature.

But in order that we may fully understand this picture, we
must compare with it a fuller version of the same scene, which
is to be found on another vase of the same period 2 (Fig. 96).
In this the group of Odysseus with the horses and Diomedes

1 See Roscher's Lexikon, III., p. 1180 and foil.

2 Wiener Vorlegebl., C. 3, 2.