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Berlin’s Antikensammlung has lent a marvellous fifth-century BC red-figure skyphos, or cup, that shows Odysseus shooting his bow at the suitors who are hounding his wife, Penelope.

I have tried a number of heading lettuces that I like, including Rhazes and Skyphos, both small red butterheads from Johnny’s, and Little Gem and Flashy Troutback, which are available from Territorial Seed and other sources.

The cap-like sunshade painted on a skyphos, which a Silenus, instead of a servant, holds over a dignified lady walking in front of him, is undoubtedly intended as a parody, perhaps copied from the scene of a comedy.

Illustration on an Athenian skyphos found in an Etruscan tomb at Chiusi, and at present in the museum there.