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Art and Archaeology of Ancient Italy

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Author: Siena Failla

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Scylla-monster sculpture, Sperlonga Grotto, 1st cent BCE or CE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Sperlonga, depicting an event from book 12 of the Odyssey, shows "her" attacking some of Odysseus's ships, torso of a woman lower body has tentacles, mid-attack (grabbing helmsman by the head, raising club, dogs either coming from lower body or belt attacking men, person falling thought to already be dead), pathos/pain, inscription of 3 sculptors (Rhodian), thought that the sculptors could be the same people who sculpted Laocoon and his sons, similarities to Laocoon sculpture (how pain is expressed, drawing in eyebrows, hair & beard, how hair frames the face)


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