Proconnesian marble sarcophagus. Musei Capitolini, Rome.
© Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.
Hint: In a new (July 2012) book from Oxford, Rome An Empire's Story, St. Andrews ancient history professor and author Greg Woolf writes that such myths as are shown in this sarcophagus relief "reveal a world already imagined in terms of a stark opposition between civilization and the wilderness."
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Yesterday I took three of my grandchildren to our local art museum. We were headed upstairs to the contemporary section but had to pass through the collection of ancient art. The kids were surprisingly interested in the sarcophagi, and I was surprised that they knew what a sarcophagus is.
Though I could tell what’s happening and I’m familiar with the stories, I’ve never heard this particular part before that I recall. Beastly!