Between self-knowledge and self-enjoyment : ΓΝѠθΙ CAYTON in the skeleton mosaic from beneath the Monastery of San Gregorio
In this essay, I offer the first sustained scholarly discussion of the Know Yourself Skeleton Mosaic (KYSM) within its broader cultural milieu and of its contribution to our understanding of self-knowledge in antiquity. In many ways, the mosaic represents an innovative visual "blend" of several cultural tropes and symbols known from the Greco-Roman world. For example, only here is the concept of s