>I'll have to think about these, but your timing couldn't be more perfect >as we "race" to the "upper airs" and through that proverbial "ivory gate" >at the end of L. VI and the school year. So, I have a piggy back >question--The "line-up" in the Underworld of souls to be "recycled" into >great Romans seems to smack of reincarnation. Does this appear in any >other Roman writings either literary or religious? > >Thanks for any feedback. Jane
The obvious passage is the speech of Pythagoras in Ovid, *Metamorphoses* 14.75-478, which surveys such "Pythagorean" topics as vegetarianism and reincarnation. James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics The Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
