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Federico Boschetti has founded an e-group called Epapeironaponton (On the Wide Sea) with the express intention of building a working group to create dynamic...
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Feb 12, 2000
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***Freelance News*** This is to announce that the strauss-reading list has been re-established -- as a forum for close readings of texts by Leo Strauss. The...
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Mar 30, 2000
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***Freelance News*** The Free Lance Academy is pleased to announce the formation of a new slow reading list to support slow readings of Plato's Timaeus. If...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Mar 31, 2000
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hi everyone. Im 16 and at the moment im studying the odyssey at school. I was wondering if anyone can help me out. I have to write a 1000 word essay...
Nicole Evans
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Apr 29, 2000
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Dear Nicole, ... I have a suggestion: Start by telling us about these passages. Assume that you are talking to your younger brother, who has not read the ...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Apr 29, 2000
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*S* well i dont have a younger brother but ok. Ill start with Agamemnon. Persephone scatters the ghosts of the women and then agamemnon approaches the blood...
Nicole Evans
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Apr 29, 2000
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Dear Nicole, This is excellent! Now I have a second suggestion: Re-read the end of book 23, especially focusing on lines 241-284. Then re-read the beginning...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Apr 29, 2000
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Unfortuantely the translation i am using (E. V. Rieu) does not have line numbers. Would you be able to tell me where these passages start and end? "Lancelot...
Nicole Evans
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Apr 30, 2000
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Apr 30, 2000
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... If you go to the links page of the homer.egroups website -- http://www.onelist.com/links/homer you -- will find a link to the Loeb Library edition of the...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Apr 30, 2000
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Apr 30, 2000
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hi again, Its taken me a while to get back to these last emails as ive had a tragic last 2 weeks but here we go... "Lancelot R. Fletcher" wrote: Dear Nicole, ...
Nicole Evans
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May 14, 2000
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hi again, Its taken me a while to get back to these last emails as ive had a tragic last 2 weeks but here we go... "Lancelot R. Fletcher" wrote: Dear Nicole, ...
Nicole Evans
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May 14, 2000
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As a newcomer to this group, I'd be interested to read views about whether Homer has been translated more successfully into prose than verse. I think the idea...
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Jun 13, 2000
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In a message dated 6/12/00 8:44:17 PM, hugh_clayton@... writes: << As a newcomer to this group, I'd be interested to read views about whether Homer has...
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Jun 13, 2000
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... I don't think Homer has ever been successfully translated and can't be, verse or prose. Ezra Pound, in Canto 1, gave an outstanding sample of how to make a...
Keith Peterson
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Jun 13, 2000
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well, gee, based on this i guess we'll get back together in about twenty years when we all know ancient greek. bye ... be, verse or prose. Ezra ... it,for...
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Jun 13, 2000
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there are even prose translations available on the net. i'll put a link on later, after i got retrieve it. ... whether ... ...
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Jun 13, 2000
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here's a link where you can find a prose homer--just click on author or title and put in the relevant info. http://sailor.gutenberg.org/ ... whether ... ...
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Jun 13, 2000
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In a message dated 6/13/00 7:48:17 AM, chaffin@... writes: << here's a link where you can find a prose homer--just click on author or title and put in...
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Jun 13, 2000
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Keith, I appreciated your thoughtful response to the translation question. I am working my way painfully through Pharr at the moment. Do you know of any...
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Jun 13, 2000
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... Hugh, please excuse my high-handed sounding response [though I really do believe what I wrote] which had only the effect of perhaps discouraging you. To...
Keith Peterson
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Jun 13, 2000
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... Maybe there's someone lurking out there who knows of one. Several years ago, I tried doing a study group online in one of the Compuserve fora, and...
Keith Peterson
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Jun 13, 2000
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you know, the truth is i'd love to know ancient greek. i just don't think my situation would support that right now and besides, i'd have to really learn more...
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Jun 14, 2000
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... How dare they indeed! Whoring after foreign gods - and lucky for them that they did... As for learning Greek - it's hard to do on your own, I know - I...
Keith Peterson
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Jun 14, 2000
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there is greeklearners@onelist.com It needs activating ... question. ... of ... ago, I tried doing a study ... personalities caused it to cave ... you'd like...
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Jun 14, 2000
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Whenever you learn a foreign (Indo-European) language, your English improves. Think of all the idiots out there who use "between he and I" because they don't...
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Jun 15, 2000
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I have seen several messages of people interested in studying Ancient Greek. There are, in fact, at least two groups doing that right now. Both started ...
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Jun 16, 2000
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Live performances of "Homer Tonight!" are still available for the 2000-2001 academic year. Modern additions of music, slides, and props augment the...
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Aug 7, 2000
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I've recently purchased from the teaching company a video on Homer's Illiad and Odyssey, also included with the package was a video on Virgil's Aeneid. After...
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