***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...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Mar 30, 2000 8:02 am
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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
lance@...
Mar 31, 2000 6:46 pm
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I don't know if you already know this or not (I saw no mention of it on the list), but it appears that there is another Roman epic being produced in Hollywood....
brian@...
Jul 10, 2000 7:25 am
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Having just finished D. Kagan's Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, I was inspired to go back to read the first postings on this list to see if they addressed...
Frank Mancino
fmancino@...
Jul 12, 2000 5:50 pm
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... [snip] ... [snip] ... Thoukydides leaves much out -- and takes much for granted. He tells us, for example, that (before 424 BCE) Sparta did not possess a...
Mr. Christopher Plane...
cplaneau@...
Jul 13, 2000 3:11 am
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(this is from David Schaps who was unable to post to the list) ... On the question of what Thucydides would have been likely to know, see now Frank S. Russell,...
fmancino
fmancino@...
Jul 26, 2000 4:19 pm
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The following is forwarded from a computer newsgroup:...
Sven Delille
sdelille@...
Aug 25, 2000 1:08 pm
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Dear List, Perikles says at II.62,: "The visible field of action has two parts, land and sea." I have a simple question: considering the intention of Perikles...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Dec 5, 2000 11:09 pm
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... You overlook cyberspace which has become a major field of operation and in the early stages of conflict, i.e. while the internet connections are still...
Robert (Bob) E. Taylor
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Dec 6, 2000 12:20 am
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... Yes, I forgot about that. It seems that the point of Perikles remarks is that there is a battle over space going on, and all the elements that constitute...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Dec 6, 2000 12:54 am
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... This sentence should read "In Plato, the first use of the word _khora_ in the _Republic_ is also in connection with war"...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Dec 6, 2000 12:58 am
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... We had a long discussion about Khora on the Timaeus list last month (which has now rather petered out). I came to the conclusion (see my last postings on...
Robert (Bob) E. Taylor
rtaylor@...
Dec 9, 2000 5:15 am
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... What is this theory? Its the first I have heard of it. Can you point me to any literature on the issue, it sounds interesting. Your idea of relating khora...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Dec 15, 2000 5:20 pm
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... If we take khora in the Timaeus basically as fecund infinite "power", with water and earth being manifestations thereof(the "two visible-phainomenon-parts...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Dec 15, 2000 6:17 pm
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Derrida likens khora to womb, and comparable to Freud's image of the navel. ... From: kosta.simopoulos@... Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:25 PM To:...
claude caspar
claudecaspar@...
Dec 15, 2000 7:14 pm
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Derrida also likens Socrates to khora! What does the womb produce though? The plague? In his description of the plague Thucydides admits that he doesnt know...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Dec 15, 2000 7:36 pm
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All, Sorry to bother folks about this, but has anyone heard from Lance Fletcher lately? I posted two messages to him this last month and have not received a...
Robert (Bob) E. Taylor
rtaylor@...
Dec 18, 2000 6:24 pm
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Hi Bob Re Lance As far as I know Lance runs things and there is no other moderator he could be away, at the moment but normally sends an email to notify when...
Rilley
niloc@...
Dec 20, 2000 8:48 pm
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... As far as I know Lance runs things and there is no other moderator he could be away, at the moment but normally sends an email to notify when away which...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lrf@...
Dec 21, 2000 3:51 am
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Hello, Is anyone still interested in this discussion? To continue my modernization of Pericles injuction to the Athenians to become masters of the...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Jan 8, 2001 10:17 pm
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I would add to my question: Do those who seek hegemony eventually destroy themselves and everyone around them? thanks Kosta Simopoulos...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Jan 8, 2001 10:54 pm
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Hello, I have another thread. Does Alcibiades(failed Pericles?) carry out in action what Thucydides does in thought? Are they the twin poles of Athens? thanks ...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Jan 9, 2001 1:21 am
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Kosta asked "Does Alcibiades(failed Pericles?) carry out in action what Thucydides does in thought? Are they the twin poles of Athens?" Thucydides does not...
Rilley
niloc@...
Jan 9, 2001 7:08 am
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Greetings, Sleeping Thucydidites. I'm pleased to see some activity on the list. Here's my take on Thucydides, Pericles, and Alcibiades. It's true that...
Chris Schlect
nsaadmin@...
Jan 9, 2001 5:45 pm
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Hello Diane, ... Plutarch was writing quite a long time after the event, I think, and I also think his account is extremely biased (compare Xenophon for the ...
Angela Cembrola
angela@...
Jan 10, 2001 2:16 am
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Hello Chris, I agree with most of what you wrote, but... ... I think the people were more frightened than anything, because of the situation they themselves...
Angela Cembrola
angela@...
Jan 10, 2001 2:16 am
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Hi Although Plutarch was writing a long time after the Peloponnesian war he had access to a lot of sources which are now extinct and therefore had quite a...
Rilley
niloc@...
Jan 10, 2001 8:48 pm
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... Sure, Plutarch had access to a lot of sources. But many of them were not necessarily accurate. Plutarch could very well be wrong with Alcibiades in...
Sven Delille
sven.delille@...
Jan 11, 2001 3:49 pm
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... [snip] ... [snip] ... [snip] ... [snip] Sokrates, during the opening of the *Gorgias*, admits to the love of two things: philosophia and Alkibiades. That...
Mr. Christopher Plane...
cplaneau@...
Jan 11, 2001 3:58 pm
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Hello Chris, ... So would I. ... I think that VI.15 is important here, because Thucydides uses words like "most people", "they", "everyone", when talking about...
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