On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > An interesting review. The book that led me to look into this was > Thomas Cahill's "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea", a book in his excellent > "Hinges of History" series. A helpful report is at > http://www.indepthinfo.com/articles/wine-dark-sea.shtml . His > attribution of the English rendering to Andrew Lang in turn led me to > http://pages.towson.edu/colson/default_files/wine.htm. Thanks for those two links. Very interesting. > Epithets may indeed be important to the development of epics, but those > epithets are sterile when the cultural allusions are lost. Half (all?) the fun is reading up about them and learning what the context was and is now. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
