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<META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>What are the latest ideas on the use of the name 'Ulysses' in Latin, rather than the Greek 'Odysseus', please?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> </x-html>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 15 08:51:06 1999 X-Persona: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From mantovano-returns Sat Jan 9 15:10:35 1999 Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsoninet.com (8.8.5) id PAA10572; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:10:35 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: wilsoninet.com: Host post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40] claimed to be post.mail.demon.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:05:54 +0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Leofranc Holford-Strevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Ulysses References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 4.01 <5F+CKYUQomUVIsIr63$Pff++gY> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 3bd2be8fb8174916c0aa50080d932add Status: RO In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marjorie Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > What are the latest ideas on the use of the name 'Ulysses' in > Latin, rather than the Greek 'Odysseus', please? Ulysses is English, a misspelling of the correct Latin Ulixes, from a dialectal Greek form Olixes, which indeed the lyric poet Ibycus of Rhegium (i.e. Reggio di Calabria) is reported in a Latin source to have used; perhaps the name reached the Romans in that form from Magna Graecia. In fact -l- is found in several dialects, preponderating on vases from Attica, Boeotia, and Corinth (we find Olutteus, Oluxeus, etc.); but the Etruscans have forms with -t- or -th-, such as Uthuze, Utsthe, from Odusseus. Leofranc Holford-Strevens *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
