Nemean 7.12-16
Greg Nagy
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March 25, 2020, 1:48 p.m.
The noun mnēmosunē ‘memory’, N.7.15, is personified here as the goddess of poetic memory, and this goddess Memory is associated with light as opposed to its opposite, which is associated with darkness.
Etruscan bronze figurine (cista handle): the suicide of Ajax. 5th century BCE, 2nd quarter. Once on loan to the Antikenmuseum Basel (Kä 531), now reverted to a private collection. Drawing by Valerie Woelfel.