This picture illustrates a topic discussed in class Thursday about how Odysseus is a larger than life character.  His large size disproportional to everything else and he is centered in the painting.   He is nearly three times as large as his men suggesting that they are unimportant and simply a means to an end for the plot of the story.  Also he is even much larger than the Sirens who are is current trial.  This suggests that he is supreme to them and is bound to triumph (in this case not by a matter of will but by foresight, cunning and ironically by the aid of his men).