Of course, it had to be in the last place I looked - Valerius Maximus, Book VIII. 11. ext. 2 How Great are the Effects of the Arts."Moreover, how great do we suppose was the respect paid by king Alexander to the dignity of art, who would have himself painted only by Apelles and sculpted only by Lysippus?"I should also include D. R. Shackleton Bailey's note here. "None of the Greek sources asserts the exclusion of other artists by royal edict. This looks like a pleasant but legendary touch in the Latin tradition and not the whole of it either. Cic. Fam. 5.12.7 only has potissimum." (C. O. Brink on Hor. Ep. 2.1.239)"I'm not going to ask what potissimum means! (g) I've been trying since yesterday to avoid making a wordplay with the other latin quote that I questioned on the Son of Alexander thread. A clue - the Oxford American dictionary shows testis and testes as having the same meaning!! Best regards,AmyntorosPop Culture Alexander
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Re: And yet another myth!
Now you just *knew* your post would make me wonder and then go searching for the source, didn't you? Of course, it had to be in the last place I looked - Valerius Maximus, Book VIII. 11. ext. 2 How Great are the Effects of the Arts."Moreover, how great do we suppose was the respect paid by king Alexander to the dignity of art, who would have himself painted only by Apelles and sculpted only by Lysippus?"I should also include D. R. Shackleton Bailey's note here. "None of the Greek sources asserts the exclusion of other artists by royal edict. This looks like a pleasant but legendary touch in the Latin tradition and not the whole of it either. Cic. Fam. 5.12.7 only has potissimum." (C. O. Brink on Hor. Ep. 2.1.239)"I'm not going to ask what potissimum means! (g) I've been trying since yesterday to avoid making a wordplay with the other latin quote that I questioned on the Son of Alexander thread. A clue - the Oxford American dictionary shows testis and testes as having the same meaning!! Best regards,Amyntoros
Of course, it had to be in the last place I looked - Valerius Maximus, Book VIII. 11. ext. 2 How Great are the Effects of the Arts."Moreover, how great do we suppose was the respect paid by king Alexander to the dignity of art, who would have himself painted only by Apelles and sculpted only by Lysippus?"I should also include D. R. Shackleton Bailey's note here. "None of the Greek sources asserts the exclusion of other artists by royal edict. This looks like a pleasant but legendary touch in the Latin tradition and not the whole of it either. Cic. Fam. 5.12.7 only has potissimum." (C. O. Brink on Hor. Ep. 2.1.239)"I'm not going to ask what potissimum means! (g) I've been trying since yesterday to avoid making a wordplay with the other latin quote that I questioned on the Son of Alexander thread. A clue - the Oxford American dictionary shows testis and testes as having the same meaning!! Best regards,AmyntorosAmyntoros
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