The roman orgy page, wich is devoted to antique roman cookery, is now active at the adress: http://www.home.ch/~spaw1087/orgy/index.html Even if I'm well...
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Glenn Meyer
glennm@...
Dec 5, 1996 5:15 pm
Patrick, I thought that you might be interested in this, and might not be on the ANCIEN-L or LT-ANTIQ mailing lists. See you in class! Glenn ... -- ...
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David Tandy
tandy@...
Dec 6, 1996 8:22 pm
Please pardon the crossposting of this, which I will post again in January 1997. Please pass it on to your colleagues not on the list. ...
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Timothy M. Teeter
TMTEETER@...
Dec 6, 1996 9:26 pm
I have just been queried by a colleague on whether or not there is any sort of dictionary or study of "Latin slang." I am sure that there have been studies of...
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James A. Francis
jafran1@...
Dec 6, 1996 10:04 pm
Re: Latin slang, there is the good old tome entitled "The Latin Sexual Vocabulary" for a start. I believe there is also a discussion group on conversational...
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cuibono@...
Dec 6, 1996 10:28 pm
one place, though not just slang, would be _the latin sexual vocabulary_. chris...
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Luca Graverini
graverin@...
Dec 6, 1996 11:27 pm
... sort ... think ... I have sometimes consulted a _Glossarium Eroticum Linguae Latinae_, but at the moment I have not at hands more bibliographical...
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Kotliar
kotliar@...
Dec 7, 1996 4:32 am
I didn't realize Sumerian was not related to any known language, How was it translated? Even with the Rosetta stone, Coptic was crucial in deciphering the...
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Frederick Cryer
FC@...
Dec 7, 1996 9:48 am
There are prodigious quantities of texts that exist in both Akkadian and Sumerian versions, as well as many straightforward bilingual inscriptions. And we've...
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Isidoros
ioniccentre@...
Dec 7, 1996 10:35 am
... And, keep not realizing it, Mr Kotlier. There is no such thing as a language not related to any known... Is that not what favorite Lewis Carroll is also...
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yair davidy
britam@...
Dec 7, 1996 5:16 pm
... Aharon Marcus in "Barzilai" (Berlin, 1909) claimed that Sumerian used Semitic word-roots similar to Hebrew but a different (more agglutinative) grammatical...
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Isidoros
ioniccentre@...
Dec 7, 1996 6:45 pm
... Thanks, Yair Davidy. Essentially (and re the "orphanage" contention) agree (though who used whose roots is a matter of perspective, and of course of...
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Alfonso Georeno
georenoa@...
Dec 7, 1996 7:21 pm
... is even some literary evidence for this in the remains- references to "lakes on fire", allegedly petroleum burn-offs from Lake Baku. Is there a...
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Eric M. Bram
gradivus@...
Dec 7, 1996 8:37 pm
... I believe that Latin "slang" used by the illiterate ("hoi polloi") in ancient Rome was referred to as "vulgar" (whence we get the modern word). As Rome...
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Patrick Alan Mcdonald
Patrick.Alan.Mcdonald...
Dec 7, 1996 11:03 pm
... Alfonso, I remember reading in Colin McEvedy's Atlas of Ancient History that at the time of his writing, researchers had yet to factually link Sumerian...
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Jonathan D. Safren
yonsaf@...
Dec 8, 1996 8:14 pm
Jay, There are ancient (second and first millenium BCE) lexical lists containing lists of Sumerian words and their Akkadian equivalents. Akkadian-language...
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Jonathan D. Safren
yonsaf@...
Dec 8, 1996 8:18 pm
Happy holidays to all the members of all the lists! Jonathan D. Safren Dept. of Biblical Studies Beit Berl College 44905 Beit Berl Post Office Israel...
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David Meadows
dmeadows@...
Dec 9, 1996 2:34 am
The Ancient World on Television (North America) December 9 - 15 Compiled from Various Sources ... The complete listings for the month are also available on the...
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Postmaster
postman@...
Dec 9, 1996 11:28 am
The Aldine Press announces a special issue of HELLAS, A Journal of Poetry of Poetry and the Humanities: HELLAS 7,2 Fall / Winter,...
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David M. Schaps
dschaps@...
Dec 9, 1996 1:29 pm
Another thing that is not exactly slang, nor do I remember the author, but the book _Unpoetische Woerter_ (including such rarely noticed points as that poets...
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Dr. Jerome S. Arkenberg
jarkenberg@...
Dec 9, 1996 2:16 pm
Two questions: 1.) Does anyone know of a source reader in Ancient Greek history comparable to that of Lewis & Reinhold, particularly anything now in public...
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Christopher Robbins
crisica@...
Dec 9, 1996 6:01 pm
Dear David, We are still waiting to hear some evidence for you assertion that classical Greek was a tonal language. Thank you, Christopher R. Robbins ICA...
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cuibono@...
Dec 9, 1996 6:41 pm
i haven't the books handy for this question, but i would poke around the ancient grammarians who themselves explain the pronunciation of their language. later...
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James A. Francis
jafran1@...
Dec 9, 1996 6:46 pm
I have no recent experience with Greek source readers, but older one's I know exist are: 1)Crawford & Whitehead, Archaic & Classical Greece, Cambridge UP, 1983...
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Alfonso Georeno
georenoa@...
Dec 9, 1996 7:13 pm
... I recall one we used entitled FROM PERICLES TO CLEOPHON. The text selection was good but there were almost notes and, of course, no vocabulary. Might be OK...
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James A. Francis
jafran1@...
Dec 9, 1996 7:53 pm
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the initial inquiry was re collections of historical texts in translation--that is what Lewis & Reinhold is. Though it is...
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Michael Arnush
marnush@...
Dec 9, 1996 8:01 pm
Public domain I can't help with, but Dillon and Garland's _Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates_ ...
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Joseph B. Scholten
jbs@...
Dec 9, 1996 8:10 pm
A slightly off-string second to Michael's comments. While I can't comment on Dillon and Garland, I too have used Demand's *A History of Ancient Greece* this...
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Timothy M. Teeter
TMTEETER@...
Dec 9, 1996 8:31 pm
... The two readers I've used for Greek history (alluded to I think by James Francis) are Greek Historical Documents: The Fifth Century B.C., edited by...
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James A. Francis
jafran1@...
Dec 9, 1996 9:52 pm
Tim Teeter is correct; "The Fifth Century BC" and "The Fourth Century BC" are the titles of the Hakkert books I was referring to in my earlier message. I...
