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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Knees and Feet
R.D. Dawe, ed., Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 140 (on lines 467-468):
Greek, from Homer onward, seems to our taste oddly preoccupied with knees and feet...