<< message forwarded by listowner, David Wilson-Okamura >> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:34:05 -0400 From: "Jim O'Hara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Salmon, Leigh Anne" wrote: > > Please help. I am to give a lecture on Anthrax this week. In doing my > research, I discovered that Virgil had referenced this disease in his works. > I would love someone to point out the passage, or provide me with a > translation of the passage for use in my lecture. On the abc website at http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/011009_Living_Anthrax_Book.h tml (mind the wrap if you paste this) there is an excerpt from a book that suggests that the cattle plague in the third book of Vergil's Georgics was anthrax (I think Vergil just calls it scabies or scab). They even quote two passages. The Vergilian passage is very literary with lots of debts to, e.g. the description of the plague at Athens in Lucretius -- Jim O'Hara Paddison Professor of Latin 206B Howell Hall phone: (919) 962-7649 fax: (919) 962-4036 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.unc.edu/~oharaj surface mail: James J. O'Hara Department of Classics CB# 3145, 101 Howell Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
