Ep. 117: Saving Art
Young Heretics
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A Few Poems That Define Skulls
There's a few things that we can glean from these works of what we would call ecphrasus. So it's like when you kind of take a moment out of the narrative to just describe a work of art. And this tradition ultimately informs, you know, some poems that are actually just written specifically only to describe awork of art. This starts to become explicit inthe in the hellenistic iren as we move through the history of greek poetry. But idid want to read to you before we leave you now, antiquity proper a, before we start to move forward into the byzantian era. I wanted to read toYou som some poems that describe sculptures
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