MAKING MYRON'S COW MOO? ECPHRASTIC EPIGRAM AND THE POETICS OF SIMULATION.
Myron's bronze sculpture of a cow proved an extraordinarily popular subject for Greek and Latin epigram over an exceptionally long time-span (Palatine Anthology 9.713-42,793-98, Posidippus 66 A-B, Ausonius 63-71, Epigrammata Bobiensia 10-13). But why the fascination? This article reads the image as...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Philology Vol. 131; no. 4; pp. 589 - 635 |
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