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785	Begin forwarded message: From: sabine.comploi@... Date: Mon Feb 3, 2003 6:39:32 AM US/Eastern To: scaife@... Message = Dear colleagues, is it...	Ross Scaife scaife@...	Feb 3, 2003 2:56 pm
786	30%-Off Sale!!! 30%-Off Sale!!! 30%-Off Sale!!! 30%-Off Sale!!! 30%-Off Sale!!! Hi Friends, My name is Joy and I’m the moderator of the egroup...	Antiquest.net antiquestnet	Feb 5, 2003 2:50 am
787	Please could someone tell me where I can find out how Romans and other peoples managed mathematical multiplication without a digital notation based on number...	Don Bloom don-bloom@...	Feb 6, 2003 5:23 pm
788	I've often wondered that myself. Bear in mind that the Greek sysyem of using letters was, if anything more confusing than Roman numbers. They did, however, use...	Bradley Skene skeneb	Feb 6, 2003 8:28 pm
789	In Canadian high school textbooks, there are examples given of how to do calculations with Roman numerals. It is suggested there, that Romans used addition and...	paula@...	Feb 6, 2003 8:44 pm
790	But didn't they really use something like an abacus to calculate with? Calculate, from calculus "pebble". Catharine Roth ... From: paula@......	Roth, Catharine prescatharine	Feb 6, 2003 9:39 pm
791	Try this: Schärlig, Alain. Compter avec des cailloux: Le Calcul élémentaire sur l'abaque chez les anciens Grecs. Pp. 339, figs. 228, pls. 6. Presses...	John G. Younger johngyounger	Feb 7, 2003 4:44 pm
792		Ross Scaife scaife@...	Feb 9, 2003 9:46 pm
793	We'll provide a link from Diotima to http://www.utexas.edu/courses/cc348hubbard/ "This website makes available to the public the first two chapters of ...	Ross Scaife scaife@...	Feb 17, 2003 11:56 pm
794	Konstantinos Kapparis (U. Florida) offers Lecture 7. Women and Family in Athenian Law as part of the Center for Hellenic Studies On-line Discussion Series ...	Ross Scaife scaife@...	Feb 21, 2003 3:57 pm
795	Announcing the publication of Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy, a source book and commentary on the institutions of this radical democracy, developed mainly...	Ross Scaife scaife@...	Feb 24, 2003 7:42 pm
796	Greetings, This appeared on another yahoo list I'm on and am forwarding for your information. Best, SallyW...	Sally Winchester clodialupa	Mar 11, 2003 1:11 pm
797	Hi, Apparently this is a hoax. I got this from the email list managers group: Someone is passing around the official notice from LAST YEAR, 2002, about...	Cecilia Garavito garavito_c	Mar 12, 2003 12:48 am
798	For a student, can someone remind me of the correct bibliographical citation for the work by Catherine Edwards? Thanks. Marilyn Y. Goldberg, Chair TEL:...	Marilyn Goldberg goldberg@...	Mar 31, 2003 6:04 pm
799	She's correct on the title: "Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome." It is in _Roman Sexualities_, ed. Judith P. Hallett...	Elizabeth Sutherland ehsuther	Mar 31, 2003 6:33 pm
800	http://www.stoa.org/dio-bin/diobib?Edwards...	Ross Scaife scaife@...	Mar 31, 2003 7:10 pm
801	I'm reposting this announcement for the benefit of anyone who missed it the first time around. Please note the deadline of April 30. Marilyn Skinner ...	Marilyn Skinner mskinner@...	Apr 1, 2003 2:09 am
802	Judith P. Hallett, Marilyn B. Skinner, Roman Sexualities. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. pp. 66-95. ... From: Marilyn Goldberg...	Fogel, Jerise fogel@...	Apr 1, 2003 8:00 pm
803	I'm working on a novel that takes place in 4 BCE. Could an educated Roman man, of the equestrian class, have read or been aware of Homer's Iliad? I was going...	Barbara Derbyshire blondie02536	Apr 2, 2003 1:38 am
804	... Yes, Homer's Illiad and Odyssey were both known to literate Romans at that time. Vergil's Aeneid was written in the same style, as a deliberate imitation...	paula@...	Apr 2, 2003 3:31 am
805	Thanks so much. It's a tremendous help. I have an absolute horror of having my characters do the impossible. By the way, I didn't realize The Aeneid, which I'm...	Barbara Derbyshire blondie02536	Apr 2, 2003 1:41 pm
806	From the time formal education was introduced in Rome, Homer was the first 'reader', used to teach even the smallest childern to read. The first line that...	Bradley Skene skeneb	Apr 2, 2003 1:41 pm
807	There were Latin translations of Iliad and Odyssey, beginning with the 3rd century BCE and Livius Andronicus I think. So Roman schoolchildren even got Homer...	Fogel, Jerise fogel@...	Apr 2, 2003 5:22 pm
808	The First six books recapitulate the Iliad; the last six recapitulate the Odyssee. Barbara Derbyshire <bad1@...> wrote: Thanks so much. It's a tremendous...	Bradley Skene skeneb	Apr 2, 2003 5:23 pm
809	<< By the way, I didn't realize The Aeneid, which I'm currently reading (the Robt. Fitzgerald translation), was written in imitation of Homer. Having just...	MillerJimE@...	Apr 3, 2003 12:42 am
810	It would also be worth your while to look (after reading Homer) at the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, a Hellenistic Greek epic poet who also influenced...	P. T. Rourke patricktrourke	Apr 4, 2003 12:14 am
811	Thank you all so very much for the help. I wasn't sure if this was the proper forum to ask such beginner questions--I can't tell you how nice it was to get so...	Barbara Derbyshire blondie02536	Apr 4, 2003 4:54 pm
812	The title is The Roman Way. It's a bit dated, however: you might want to read some stuff on the Romans by Peter Green, or even Michael Grant's books on the...	Fogel, Jerise fogel@...	Apr 4, 2003 4:57 pm
813	Hi Everyone, I've just posted a new list of books on ancient and medieval history on my egroup "Antiquestnetbooks." All books are on sale at 30%-off the...	antiquestnet	Apr 5, 2003 4:36 am
814	The University of Cincinnati's Department of Classics is pleased to announce the winners of the Margo Tytus Fellowships for the 2003-2004 academic year. They...	Getzel Cohen getzel.cohen@...	Apr 5, 2003 2:30 pm

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