I wanted to welcome those of you who have joined the Herodotus discussion list. In order for the list to be successful, we probably will need others to join as...
Hello, My name is Michael Helfield and I am an undergraduate student at McGill university in Montreal. I am pursuing a degree in Classics. I am very interested...
Michael Helfield
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Mar 12, 1999 9:41 pm
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Hi everyone, I am Keith, this is great. I am in the middle of reading the Histories and could use some help from time to time. About me : Philosophy Major,...
Keith Taylor
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Mar 12, 1999 10:34 pm
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Greetings, colleagues: I just subscribed, and look forward to our discussion of the Histories. As for Jim's opening (general) set of questions about...
max gabrielson
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Mar 13, 1999 3:20 am
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Hi, my name is Chris Mortimer, a retired immunologist from Berkeley. I do love the classics and am a lurker on a number of lists dealing with the Greek and ...
Zhonu@xxx.xxx
Mar 13, 1999 2:09 am
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This is a test to see if I'm actually subscribed and to say hello. I think these are all excellent questions for discussion. Instead of Question 2: what are...
Liz Fried
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Mar 13, 1999 3:43 am
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I am just subscribed, received the welcome letter, visited the Web site. However, I haven't seen the question Liz Fried mentions. Is there another intro letter...
Curtis Stamps
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Mar 13, 1999 3:47 am
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I have added bookmarks to two different sites where you can get the Rawlinson translation of Herodotus to the bookmark section of the "list center" for the...
Lancelot Fletcher
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Mar 13, 1999 4:01 am
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I didn't receive the letter with the questions I mentioned. I went to the digest on the web site and read the list of questions there. Lisbeth S. Fried ...
Liz Fried
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Mar 13, 1999 4:01 am
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all, Maybe we should look for evidence in inscriptions supporting Herodotos' passage concerning the Magus named Smerdis. I just joined the group, and I haven;t...
Tobin Cataldo
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Mar 13, 1999 8:09 am
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Dear colleagues, I´m really excited at the prospect of having an entired list devoted to Herodotus, and Herodotus alone! And my take too.... ... I have read...
Miryam & Cesar Libran...
libran@xxx.xxx
Mar 13, 1999 9:08 am
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... I'd have to agree with Liz on this one. I postulate two possible reasons for H. to portray Cambyses as mad: 1) the Egyptians did not look fondly on the...
Nicholas Gresens
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Mar 13, 1999 3:39 pm
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I thought some of you might like to know who and how many we are. As I write, there are 91 subscribers to the herodotus list -- up by more than 30 since I...
Lancelot Fletcher
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Mar 13, 1999 7:24 pm
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... I like your second option too. I am wondering tho if Darius started the rumor himself! It makes Darius seem like this great saint and savior by comparison....
Liz Fried
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Mar 13, 1999 8:10 pm
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Greetings! My very first impression -- concerning this matter -- comes from a very close reading of the circumstances around which Cambyses is said to have ...
Frank T. De Angelis
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Mar 13, 1999 12:47 pm
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AN ADDITION: 1) Well, the age-old comfort (justificatory or apologetic) of "God is on our side" had to be established, a priori, by consulting a 'credible' ...
Frank T. De Angelis
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Mar 13, 1999 1:31 pm
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Hello, I have just finished reading Gould's book "Herodotus" (1989). I found very enlightning, and that it brings forth very important insight. Take for...
Michael Helfield
mhelfield@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 14, 1999 12:52 am
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... I'm not so sure I agree with you on this point. Does H. really think of all the barbarians as non/sub-human? This may be an attitude held among many in...
Nicholas Gresens
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Mar 14, 1999 1:51 am
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... Sorry for all the rehash. I have no doubt that Darius could/would have created this image of Cambyses. After all, he did seem to finish Pasargadae for...
Nicholas Gresens
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Mar 14, 1999 2:22 am
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... Yes, of course I agree with you that Herodotus was fairly anti-ethnocentric. He certainly loved traveling and got along quite well with foreign peoples --...
Frank T. De Angelis
spartacus@xxx.xxxx
Mar 13, 1999 5:42 pm
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... I guess it must be due, at least here in Spain, to the fact that in high school Herodotus was heavily used in Greek classes, both in the original Greek...
Miryam & Cesar Libran...
libran@xxx.xxx
Mar 14, 1999 11:43 am
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... I´m writing off-hand, but I seem to remember he was a nephew to epic poet Paniasis, whose mother or father was carian- therefore part of Herodotus´...
Miryam & Cesar Libran...
libran@xxx.xxx
Mar 14, 1999 11:43 am
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... family ... (to the ... culture. One ... verify ... Thanks for the Paniasas reference. And I agree with you. nick...
Nicholas Gresens
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Mar 14, 1999 1:39 pm
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In Book One [207] it says " human affairs are on a wheel, and as the wheel turns around it does not permit the same people always to prosper." I was wondering,...
Paul Miller
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Mar 18, 1999 11:10 pm
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Hi Paul De Selincourt translation of Herodotus gives an explanation " 'tree' is a kind of Indian canabis, from which hashish is extracted." So the world was...
Rilley Team
niloc@xxxx.xx.xxx
Mar 19, 1999 9:48 am
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... As far as I know, the only fruit it could be - that was grown in the area and produces that effect - is corriander (sorry, I don't have a reference for...
Tom Wrobel
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Mar 19, 1999 9:20 am
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... The Greek word is 'karpos'. For its possible meanings see: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/lexindex?lookup=karpo/s&author=*2.0&lang=Greek&corpus=2.0 ...
Hugh Bowden
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Mar 19, 1999 10:22 am
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... From: Paul Miller <pm@...> To: herodotus@onelist.com <herodotus@onelist.com> Date: 18 March 1999 23:13 Subject: [herodotus] Wheel and Fruit...
David White
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Mar 19, 1999 7:35 am
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... We have it every year at our seder table. ... Lisbeth S. Fried Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies New York University 51 Washington Sq. S. New York,...
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