Describe_Adonis [New SONNET Group!] Hello there, folks! I have just started up a new moderated poetry group called, Describe_Adonis [Guess who wrote this!] ...
vallance2@...
Mar 2, 2001 3:46 am
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Iliassia I [being lines 1-21 of Book 1 of the Iliad] Sing, oh goddess, I... Listen! Achille's stubborn rage has rained woes on the Achaeans, from dusky...
vallance2@...
Mar 2, 2001 3:46 am
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Describe Adonis Epistle to William Shakespeare, From his loyal Friend, Harry Devonshire, Esq. "Describe Adonis, if thou will". I dared some puffs at my new...
vallance2@...
Mar 2, 2001 3:44 pm
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II [being lines 22-38 of Book 1 of the Iliad] All the Danaans stood then to praise the seer, all eyes on his glimmering ransom. Fuming, Agamemnon stepped up,...
vallance2@...
Mar 4, 2001 8:39 am
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Please Take note of my newest Group on Smart Groups in the UK, Illiasia [Homer's Iliad] http://vallance3.ipfox.com/ is dedicated to the great spirit and...
vallance2@...
Apr 9, 2001 4:22 am
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Dear Moderator (& interested Members) of Homer I am sending you this e-mail, because I believe that you personally would most probably be interested in at...
vallance2@...
May 10, 2001 3:20 pm
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Hello! I just started reading the Iliad as part of a personal quest to read all the literature I didn't get to read in college. I'm an M.A. in English and I...
Jo Ann Hinkle
joann@...
Jun 13, 2001 6:52 am
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... Funny thing about human nature, albeit the emotions and feelings in Homer seem much more real than ours, as ours are, after all, sorry copies of the ...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 15, 2001 2:06 pm
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... Hi, there, Joanne! I just happened to get a cc. copy of your message to: homer@yahoogroups.com and I though you might also be interested in having a look...
Richard Vallance
vallance2@...
Jun 15, 2001 5:58 pm
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Aren't we going a bit overboard, Richard? The Phoenicians influenced the Greek alphabet, that's common knowledge. Just look at the first two letters. Homer is...
cathy schmick
nimuesprite@...
Jun 17, 2001 3:05 am
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... Hardly. There is an interplay between the two eras, though more fundamental cruxes are best understood as having the past filtered through his present, ...
aruftu@...
Jun 17, 2001 3:16 am
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I disagree. The armour, the shields, the funerals are mycenean, not "dark age." ... Hardly. There is an interplay between the two eras, though more...
cathy schmick
nimuesprite@...
Jun 17, 2001 4:53 am
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... look at the first two letters. Are you sure it's not the other way around? ... counting, which was basically Sumerian and from other parts of the Semitic ...
i.s.
podium_arts@...
Jun 17, 2001 12:01 pm
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... Just look at the first two letters. ... For what it's worth, I found this bit of info in one of my books. Now I'm not a linguistics expert, but this is...
Jo Ann Hinkle
joann@...
Jun 17, 2001 1:42 pm
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... Well, yes, this is all very important, but it lacks the most important part. It was Cadmus who brought the Phoenician alphabet to the illiterate Greeks as...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 17, 2001 2:12 pm
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"....the most important part.It was Cadmus who brought the Phoenician alphabet to the illiterate Greeks..." Isn't this taking the mythy past too seriously?...
aruftu@...
Jun 17, 2001 3:37 pm
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... One cannot take myths too seriously. Best regards, Kalev Pehme...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 17, 2001 3:49 pm
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I'm not. Take a look at the Phoenician, and then compare to the Greek. Unless you're including Linear B, and then I have no clue! Regards, Catherine Icastes...
cathy schmick
nimuesprite@...
Jun 18, 2001 1:55 am
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... If it looks like, then it is? Is that what you're saying? That Cadmus carries the alphabet to the Greeks does not mean that they have adopt the same...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 18, 2001 12:02 pm
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... 1. The "Bible", i.e. the Old Testament, is written in Hebew, not Greek. 2. When I made the statement, The Greeks were the true genii and the light of the...
Richard Vallance
vallance2@...
Jun 18, 2001 6:48 pm
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Richard, where did you get the idea I hated the Iliad? I love Achilles, I love Diomedes. I made a pilgrimage to Mycenae when I was 20, and as Schliemann did,...
cathy schmick
nimuesprite@...
Jun 19, 2001 12:25 am
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<P> Kalev, I blush to admit that I don't even recall the myth of Cadmus. The Phoenicians and Greeks must have done business with each other, especially ...
cathy schmick
nimuesprite@...
Jun 19, 2001 12:29 am
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... Cadmus, yes, Cadmus. All you need to know is in Nonnos, Homer's competitor, and the last of the great pagan epic poets! N.B.: Cadmus rescues Zeus from ...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 19, 2001 12:54 am
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By Chance (I mean the god, of course) the 6/15 TLS arrived today. On page 19 there are a couple of shots in the Black Athena War. It has taken on new some...
aruftu@...
Jun 19, 2001 1:01 am
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... Where is the proof for that? Best regards, Kalev Pehme...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 19, 2001 1:46 am
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Kalev, You remind me of the amazing apparently true report on the announcement of the death of Pan, unless you have any recent sightings. Like you, I feel ...
aruftu@...
Jun 19, 2001 1:49 am
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... The death of Pan was quite real, and millions of people in the ancient world witnessed it, more than any single person witnessed the death of one Jesus ...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 19, 2001 2:10 am
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Kalev (this is claude caspar)- you probably read the TLS (Times Literary Supplement)- I will look for your letter to the editor... [Non-text portions of this...
aruftu@...
Jun 19, 2001 2:11 am
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I have not read a TLS in years...or for that matter even the New York Times Book Review any more or even the New York Review or the London Review of Books. ...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 19, 2001 2:18 am
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O my goddess (Athena, of course), are they back to that again!!! They even have a website where you argue either pro-"black" or not. Does it really matter in...
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