Animals as Individuals in Anyte of Tegea.
This article explores a tension in the animal epigrams of Anyte of Tegea, the inventor of the animal and pastoral epigram. It argues that, on the one hand, the genre of funerary epigram encourages Anyte to think about animals as individuals, with their own particular personalities, biographies, and...
| Publicado en: | Helios Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26 |
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Texas Tech University Press
Spring2022
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