... terms of inner conflict and inner development than many readers. To me the externalization of conflict seems chacteristic of Homer. The result is a world ...
Steven
fiddlersgreen7@...
Sep 2, 2001 2:36 am
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I enjoy your posts, Steven, though I don't share your approach in assigning all to biological determinisim (you may define it a different way). One thing...
mstiegle@...
Sep 2, 2001 8:16 am
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There's way too much to respond to in this, but let me just make a few points and raise a few questions. ... I have no doubt that Homer wants us to see...
Jim Costopoulos
jacostopoulo@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:40 pm
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... Tough question! and one that gets at the heart of what the Odyssey is about. There's no easy reason to explain why Odysseus chooses humanity over divinity...
Jim Costopoulos
jacostopoulo@...
Sep 3, 2001 6:38 pm
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Odysseus rejects the offer of immortality from Calypso because immortality and all that it represents regarding the development of an individual soul is worth...
mstiegle@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:43 pm
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Is it possible that Achilleus fails to go down the road toward individuation as Odysseus decides to do? Achilleus would appear to be taking the easy road by...
Steven
fiddlersgreen7@...
Sep 3, 2001 11:41 pm
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Principal Actors in Homer's Iliad. 1. Achilles Below is my own adaptation of the integral text from Princeton University's WEB Site on the Iliad. To read the...
vallance2@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:11 am
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Principal Actors in Homer's Iliad. 2. Agamemnon Here is an adapted excerpt from Princeton University's WEB Site on the Iliad. To read the text in its entirety,...
vallance2@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:16 am
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Principal Characters in Homer's Iliad. 3. Helen One of the most complex and intriguing figures in Greek mythology. Helen was the daughter of Leda the Swan and...
vallance2@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:17 am
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Principal Characters in Homer's Iliad. 4. APOLLO (The following is my own adaptation of the text on the Web Site, to which it refers) A mighty god, the Son of...
vallance2@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:19 am
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Principal Characters in Homer's Iliad. 5. Artemis 5. ARTEMIS (Roman Diana) (The following is a highly abrided and adapted excerpt from the WEB page...
vallance2@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:20 am
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... Artemis is an interesting choice here. I couldn't recall a single instance when she was mentioned, but I just looked it up and she is referred to by name...
Jim Costopoulos
jacostopoulo@...
Sep 4, 2001 1:37 pm
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Troy. The Historical Site & Excavations there. Beginning this month, and for the remainder of this year, I shall be posting regular links to WEB sites ...
Richard Vallance Janke
richard.vallance@...
Sep 6, 2001 9:38 am
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Behind and Beyond the Myth of Troy EXCAVATING TROY Sponsored Projects by Daimler - Benz Applying the latest scientific methods, an international research team...
Richard Vallance Janke
richard.vallance@...
Sep 6, 2001 9:39 am
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Project Troia TROIA AND THE TROAD - ARCHAEOLOGY OF A REGION The new excavations at Troy This is an international and interdisciplinary project undertaken by...
Richard Vallance Janke
richard.vallance@...
Sep 6, 2001 9:54 am
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Behind the Mask of Agamemnon. "Experts" debate: Is Schliemann's famous find a modern-day forgery? [Well, that's at least what the HTML header said for this...
Richard Vallance Janke
richard.vallance@...
Sep 6, 2001 10:03 am
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... Can you explain to me what a god of the oblique and a god of the mouse is? Bacchus All praise and honor are yours/ As you journey to the world below. No...
bacchus
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Sep 8, 2001 1:06 pm
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... By choosing glory Achilles achieves immortality through the song culture of Greece and I might ad that he lives on today. If Achilles had chosen a life...
bacchus
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Sep 8, 2001 1:14 pm
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... Thanks for the information. Bacchus All praise and honor are yours/ As you journey to the world below. No sickness ravaged you,/ No sword cut short your...
bacchus
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Sep 8, 2001 1:20 pm
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According to Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, the following epitaphs for Apollon are noted:
Lox-ias , ou, Ion. Lox-iês , eô,...
Steven
fiddlersgreen7@...
Sep 10, 2001 8:33 am
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... There are 31 (if I counted right) separate epithets and descriptive phrases for Apollo in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. A must for on this subject is _The ...
Icastes
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Sep 10, 2001 1:51 pm
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I got this off another list and thouht it might it be of some interest here. Message: 2 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:06:16 -0000 From: "GEORGE"...
bacchus
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Sep 12, 2001 6:23 am
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Hi I heard Homer used to compose his poems while sitting on a rock just close to sea, because he wanted to save the rythm and the melody of his epic stories. I...
sdrche@...
Oct 2, 2001 8:37 pm
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... The answer is: Lice. I think you are referring to a remark by Heraclitus, who wrote (I am quoting from memory) "Even Homer, the wisest of men, was fooled...
Lancelot Fletcher
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Oct 2, 2001 8:52 pm
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In a message dated 10/2/2001 4:58:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I recall, being in a cast and unable to find my citation, that "flies" or "dead lice" is an...
aruftu@...
Oct 2, 2001 9:18 pm
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Does anybody know of any systematic study of the how Persephone's description of what happened to her compares with the account given in the earlier part of...
kjones@...
Nov 6, 2001 7:09 pm
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I accidently found out this group during my web searching on Homeric identity. I mean did Homer really exist? Does any of you know where can I find "useful"...
Although stories have survived from ancient times about a man named "Homer" who composed these two famous poems, there is no independent evidence (so far as I...
HackBar9@...
Nov 20, 2001 8:51 pm
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My rather preliminary knowledge on Homeric studies, tells me that the so called "Homeric Question" was born after the German scholar August Wolf published his...
You might look into Gregory Nagy's 1996 monograph "Homeric Questions" which is still in print (about $12 at Amazon). He sets forth the current scholarship on...
