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Turning Away from the World / The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture with Benjamin A. Saltzman

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Plato's Leontius: wavering, seeing, and self-reproach

Saltzman examines Plato's anecdote of Leontius, showing how covering the face signifies inner struggle after already perceiving the corpses.

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