Tuesday, August 28, 2018

 

A Good Thing

Homer, Iliad 24.130-131 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
It is a good thing even to lie with a woman
in love.

ἀγαθὸν δὲ γυναικί περ ἐν φιλότητι
μίσγεσθ᾽...
Paul Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, tr. Alan Shapiro (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990), p. 254 (from Berlin, Antikenmuseum, inv. 196236):

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 3:14 AM


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