I agree totally, however, as an Ohio girl,I must admit it was also a most apt warning, and might be considered a public service announcement..
Helen Conrad-O'Briain
On 29 Sep 2004, at 19:56, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
At 08:30 PM 9/29/2004 +0200, you wrote:
Am I delusional or is this list
Domnius scripist:
>> I sent a private note to the sender, but perhaps it's worth saying
>> here, as well. I'm sure this was an accident. But please don't put
>> Mantovano on lists-of-people-I-send-jokes-to. Messages on this list
>> are sometimes infrequent. I'm happy with that, so long as, when we
I suggest Theodore Haecker's "Virgil: Father of the West". There's a good
chapter there about how Aeneas and Odysseus are quite dissimilar figures.
Also (the best part) explains (in ecstasy almost) how Aeneas is in fact most
similar to Abraham, the founder of the faith.
It's a 1934 book...you'
In our condemnation of Ohio girls (it was not a
very funny joke) let's not forget Virginia Fitzpatrick's stated purpose in
checking out the site. I signed up for very similar reasons (trained to
teach English, told to teach Classical Societies) and have found the site an
invaluable source o
