VIRGIL: Galateas

2003-05-23 Thread rdyer
Dear List, My wife, working on Proust, needs to know when Galatea enters the classical story of Pygmalion and the statue of Venus, and whether this Galatea has anything to do with the nymph in the story of Polyphemus or the one in Theocritus and Vergil. I can find no classical source for

Re: VIRGIL: Caesar, cold and isolated

2003-05-22 Thread rdyer
I have been busy with other things - I hope the Hellenists and Byzantinists on this list know the excellent Suda On Line project on Stoa: http://www.stoa.org/sol/ I am just finishing a cluster of very time-consuming entries on Tyche and its related verbs in the 1700 years of Greek that the Suda

Re: VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-06 Thread rdyer
You have to copy the address on to another file and make the 2 lines wrap around. Rob Dyer http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/wrome22.xmlsSheet=/news/2003/04/22/ixworld.html Woman may have founded ancient Rome By Bruce Johnston in Rome (Filed: 22/04/2003)

VIRGIL: petitions

2003-03-13 Thread rdyer
Are petitions re the new war acceptable to the list? Rob Dyer --- 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