collective-history:Ovid as imagined in the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.I mean, fine. Ovid as imagi
collective-history: Ovid as imagined in the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. I mean, fine. Ovid as imagined in the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. But are we really going to settle for this historically inaccurate costume? What kind of Ovid would wear a pink smock? Maybe there is an art historical mystery going on here. I have a feeling that as an eques, an equestrian, he might have been a little more likely to wear a white woolen toga with narrow stripes, and the Romans called the stripes purple but they were deep crimson. I don’t know, whatever. Maybe this was what he wore after he was exiled to Siberia. Or the Roman equivalent of Siberia along the Black Sea coast. (In Greek the Black Sea was called the “Friendly Sea”, because it was REALLY NOT FRIENDLY. Seriously, Greeks and Romans wanted so little to do with the Black Sea region that they sarcastically called it the Friendly Sea for hundreds of years.) Anyway, what is up with those stormy waves Ovid is rising up out of? Clearly this is a depiction of Ovid in Persian garb, long sleeves and smock and PROBABLY pants underneath the waves, and a silly version of a Phrygian cap on his head. More on Phrygian caps and Persian garb to come. For now, be content that we have just solved yet another mystery of the ancients. -- source link
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