Hi, all.
So. I've always found it interesting that Phaedrus and/or the Z-narrator
made the famous booboo about the etymology of "Phaedrus": the incorrect
"wolf" versus the correct "bright, radiant."
I was recently prowling around Wikipedia doing research for "Human Days"
(m'next book), and I came upon this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceus -
which indicates that Apollo had a Wolf manifestation or epithet.
The arch-Apollonian Aristotle (especially as interpreted so badly, so
inorganically, by the merciless Chairman) had his HQ at, of course, The
Lyceum "(Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, "Lykeion") ... a gymnasium and public
meeting place in Classical Athens named after the god of the grove that
housed the Lyceum, Apollo Lyceus (Apollo as 'wolf-god'). Though best known
for its connection with Aristotle and the peripatetic school he led there,
the Lyceum was in existence long before Aristotle’s formal founding in 334
or 335 BC and continued under several heads until the Roman general Sulla
sacked Athens in 86 BC[1]. The remains of the Lyceum were discovered in
modern Athens in 1996." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceum_(Classical)
So to do proper battle with Aristotle, Phaedrus had to, all the way down to
his epithet, also be a wolf?
Bob's a careful writer. I wouldn't put it past possibility that he (or some
part of him) planted it.
Of course, "bright, radiant" is also another one of the manifestations of
Apollo, and not a bad description of Aristotle's own mind. Plato always
seems darker and more heaving to me. I found translating Aristotle a snap
and Plato near-impossible. Has it been remarked that "Aristotle" is an
epithet also? Aristo-teles: "the best goal, or end." "Platon" was named for
his broad shoulders, having been athletic in his youth - "the plateau."
BTW, someone had some fun with an in-joke here:
http://www.klwines.com/detail.asp?sku=1039510
MRB
http://www.fuguewriter.com
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