docoflove1974

I'd like to know what the abbreviations after the names of various members mean? Do they denote their role in the Senate or elsewhere?

Yeah, French is kinda out...I can read it, and generally understand it, but I'm not fluent in it, so I'd rather not. My best 'weapon' in reading the Miracles of Our Lady was a volume with Gautier de Coinci's Miracle de Nostre Dame, Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Senora and King Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria put together by Cesare Segre...so the originals had the modern Italian translations with it. It was the only way I could be sure of the French! I can read French linguistic writings, because of the technical terms and my limited knowledge of the grammar. But a project such as this, where my knowledge of Latin is even shakier than that of my French, I need something I can read fluently. That pretty much leaves English, Spanish and Italian! Outstanding suggestions by all of you...I'll definitely look into Branham and Kinney, AD; using separate texts might have to be the way to go, considering the cost of the Loeb editions (unless I stumble upon them in a used book store...what a find that would be!). As for online texts...I remember taking a course on La Divina Commedia many moons ago, and supplementing my textbook with a site online with text. I got lucky, as the site I was using was pretty good (and I've long ago lost the site address), but I couldn't believe how many partial and incorrect sites there were! For something as well-published as La Divina Commedia!

Thanks, hun...and everyone else. I'm trying to line up a few projects so that when this blessed dissertation is done-done, I have stuff to do in the interim (besides lesson planning, breathing, eating, and enjoying a bit of time off...that'll take about 10 minutes...hehe).

Thanks for the warning and the suggestions...yes, Loeb is through Harvard UP here in the States...but if need be, and if the cost works in my favor, I might have other options for obtaining volumes if Loeb is the way that I'll go. And, of course, the LC...I totally forgot online corpora. Any others that are worth mentioning? Any others?

Hmmmm...Doc seeks out Nephele, so that she may weave her wonders once again, and make sure that the merry continues (and the Augusta doesn't get Neil into a heap of trouble). Oh, and to ensure the merry-making...Doc runs down to the cellars to have her servants bring up her best wine, and brings her friends around for a drink of merry good cheer. Hopefully that'll assuage all uneasiness!

Question for those of you who are well-verse in Latin literature... I'm looking for good (aka reliable) versions of works by Petronius and Plautus, primarily, which have been translated to modern language (be it English, Spanish, or Italian). It has to be 'reliable', because I wish to use it not only for personal reading, but for further research, too. Are there any dual-language editions that are recommended? After perusing Amazon, I know that Oxford does publish an edition of Satyricon, but I don't know if it's a dual-language edition. Same with the Penguin edition. As for Plautus, Amazon has a complete set of the comedies, along with the Penguin edition of 'Pot of Gold' and other stories, and Oxford's edition of the 4 comedies. I'll be looking at Terence, probably, at a later date, but because my comrads have recommended Plautus and Petronius for looking at 'Vulgar' vs. Classical Latin examples, I figure I'd at least read the comedies first! Thanks in advance!

And wasn't Apollo one of the few 'borrowed' deities whose importance and true characteristics were about the same in Roman and Greek mythology? For instance, Zeus seems more 'omnipotent' than Jupiter, Hera is more active than Juno, and Athena much more involved in Greek mythology than Minerva. Wasn't it the case that, for example, whereas Athena's role in combat was important, yet Minerva wasn't so much thought as being part of the art of combat? (I'm thinking of Athena's role in The Illiad, and can't think of Minerva in the same role in Roman myth. Also, I believe that I had read somewhere in the past (please don't ask me where) that for Romans the 'local' deities and familial spirits played more of a role than did the major Pantheon. Is this true?

Sheesh...well, in the summer of love I wasn't even a twinkle in me daddy's eye...and considering that my mother was 15...I don't quite believe that children was even in her big picture. But, regardless...a childhood snap of me...I'll go a-looking. I know where they are for the most part...on the desktop computer gathering dust. If I have one here, I'll post it!

Ooooh what a cheeky little imp! lol!

Just in case anyone's interested, this is the San Francisco Chronicle's site...a very groovy site indeed!

Maybe the soldiers were not truly Romans, but Germanic mercenaries hired to fill in the army? Or was this practice done later in the Empire?

Have a great day, AC! Wait, scratch that...Friday birthdays should be extended throughout the weekend. Live it up!

LOL! Only 450 miles difference...and major buising of egos! Sorry, but it did strike me as quite a funny concept.

If there were skeletal remains of horses...doesn't that suggest that the deceased is of high nobility, perhaps even of regal stature? I can't get the link to work for me, either...so I don't know much more about the issue.

Just don't completely dispatch her...just make her lost...or something... *Doc winks and smiles in Augusta's direction...one distraction is avoided.*

Buncha silly lookie-loos. GO AND TALK TO THE WOMAN, DAMMIT!!!

Cool! Can't wait to read the review!

Given the Egyptian/Greek medical thread already on the forum...a question: Someone (Ramses? AD?) stated that the Greeks went to Egypt to learn about medicine, that some would say that the Greeks improved upon Egyptian technology and knowledge. So...did the Romans continue this 'improvement'? Did they take Greek (and Egyptian) medical knowledge and techniques and improve upon it? I just had another thought: from the article, one can get the feeling that the gladiators were well-treated medically--as a source of entertainment, you need to keep the entertainers able to work! Reminds me of modern athletes...they have some of the best medical care around, both in terms of access to the doctors as well as the trainers and therapists to prolong their careers.

Yeah, but the question is: has the dude received any more calls from BT?

Welcome back, dude. Here's to things looking up from today on.

Oh, several of them already know! Nah, it'll be food related...I'm trying to decide what all to bring them. A 9:45am class...might do a brunch. Perhaps.

There's absolutely no persuading needed on my part...it's just an employment issue. Specifically, as of now I don't know if I'll have a couple of academic positions come through, or if I'll be corporate. I should know in the next couple of weeks (I hope!). Once I know, and once I can figure out how much money to budget, I'll give my final answer! If I can't go to this one, I've decided that I'll be in York next year. I'll make time!

Close...usually, as I've seen it, it's Noelia...and for someone born on New Years' Eve, it's good enough! Zahrah...flower...sweeeeeeeeeet. oops. GROOOOOOOOOOOOOVY

Heheh Noheli almost looks like Noel...like Christmas time...almost perfect for me! Groovy, baby!

Oh yeah...Ms. Joplin has been heard wailing away the blues in many parts around here...esp. my car