Re: VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-06 Thread rdyer
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RE: VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-06 Thread Patrick Roper
Leofranc Holford-Strevens said: When I tried it, the page was said not to be available. Is this said to be a new fragment, or have I forgotten something? Leofranc, Rob Dyer has answered the link query. My original informant suggested this was a new fragment and I would be interested to know if

Re: VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-06 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
I participated in an earlier discussion of this problem on another list; there seems to be no new papyrus involved, and if the piece is meant to be serious at all, it is probably the result of confusing Stesichorus' connection with the Tabula Iliaca and a tradition mentioned in Dionysius of

VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-05 Thread Patrick Roper
Subscribers, if they are not aware of it already, may be interested in knowing that, according to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman named Roma arrived with a Trojan fleet in an idyllic place that could

Re: VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-05 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Subscribers, if they are not aware of it already, may be interested in knowing that, according to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman