All I can say is "oy!" Strangely, I happen to know to varying degrees the authors of these other books with Poussin on the cover. Peter Bing was my first Greek teacher and Mario Erasmo was a grad student at Yale when I taught there, though I never taught him. I had no idea that these covers were out there. I guess the image is just too good to pass up. Sorry, guys! I should have gone with David's Oath of the Horatii.
Well, there's always other options to consider when/if there's a second edition... a detail from the senatus consultum de bacchanalibus perhaps? That way you could still keep the epigraphy in the picture, with an archaic Latin bonus! :)
ReplyDeleteActually, I was trying to avoid the montages of alphabets which grace most similar books, but by avoiding Scylla I got sucked into Charybdis.
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