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| | Alexandra PAPPAS |
 | | While the Plato passage is customarily read as the earliest instance of the superstition that to be seen by a wolf or, alternately, to see a wolf would render a person mute, I argue that the inscription on Onesimos' cup may hint at the existence of an earlier, archaic version. |
 | | To interpret the phrase "Lykos kalos," the reader must reconcile two disparate dimensions: "Lykos" is painted on a representation of a three-dimensional object within the image on the cup, while its semantic complement "kalos" exists in the spatially undefined background of the real three-dimensional object, the cup itself. |
 | | Because Lykos is the word highest up on the cup's interior, closest to the rim, it would have been the first word revealed as the drinker consumed the cup's contents, presumably wine. |
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