Jess Paehlke schrieb:
Dr. Conrad,
I'd be very interested to hear more about what Vergil of Salzburg said re:
the antipodes and Boniface's concerns. Could you recommend any references
about this?
see:
http://www.fortunecity.de/lindenpark/schwitters/149/globushinweise.html
(Dr. Krüger in
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:12:31 -0500
From: Jeremy Downes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the States, at least, many classical names were imposed on
enslaved Africans (as with Caesar in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko). To great
extent, this helps explain the occasional
Dr. Conrad,
I'd be very interested to hear more about what Vergil of Salzburg said re:
the antipodes and Boniface's concerns. Could you recommend any references
about this?
Thanks in advance,
Jess Paehlke
M.A. candidate
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can´t comment on any English usage, but here in Spain Virgilio (obviously,
Vergil) has been consistently used as a Christian name, with no implications
whatsoever. Homer has never, to my knowledge, been used. Now the situation in
South America is very different... you have the *lot *of
Backing up a bit, the correspondent from Australia was mistaken when he said
that the first instance of Virgil as a first name in the US occurred with the
composer Virgil Thompson. Not true. The name has been used in the US for
generations and, Virgil Thompson notwithstanding, (dare I say it
Yes, I have to acknowledge that those hillbilly associations do exist, in
the U.S. context; the same for the name Homer, unfortunately. But I don't
know how that came about, and I wish I knew. Homer and Virgil are my two
favorite poets, but if I had wanted to name my son in honor of one or both
What's the British attitude? Doesn't anyone there give the name
Homer or Virgil to their son? After all, one meets Englishmen named
Terence, etc.
To someone like me brought up in the UK, Homer and Virgil used as forenames
sound distinctly American -- I didn't know they had a hillbilly
I knew a cat called Virgil once, but I don't suppose that counts.
Caroline Butler
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