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The source I was thinking of was the critical edition (A Dutch publisher if I remember correctly) of Zosimus. Then I bought Jordanes's with Mommsen providing the textual apparatus in a reprint of the MGH for $19 and shipping. That isn't bad , but _Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?_ (paper) was $59 which seems out of line to me. And I've paid $100 plus for other books in paper. What really chaps my lips is what a state U, with only a poor research library, wants $100 a year to use their research facillities on site, no ILL included. Moreover, what they have in their circulating collection, which is dated because they done away history, philosophy, sociology, and political science and stuck the few surviving faculty into "Liberal Studies," has a checkout period of two weeks! Scholars are people who pay overpriced instate tutition (up thousands of percent) or are faculty, you understand. Of course they are turning the place into a trade school, what it was in territorial days.

I just received an email from the administrator. It contains links to the Gutenberg Project and Quitus Libri. Well, my old outlook express will no longer let me follow email links. But I can search google. The Gutenberg Project is OK, I suppose, if you want a copy of Gibbon to read off the screen. But Quitus Libri seems to have no content? Was that thread just started? I would think www.tertullian.org would be more useful for chuch fathers or the MGH site on the web. Though you can find some Ante and Post Nicean Fathers' translations used. The fact is however that most source materials needs to be purchased through Amazon or Alibris. Stuff like the old Loeb Classical Library or the more modern Translated Texts for Historians are what pony riders have to use with occasional finds, like Zosimus and a piece of Zonarius. The problem is that most academic edited texts come from the continent and are from other the eary 20th and later 19th Century. These are either unavailable or brutally expensive. There is no real substitute for a University Library at a major University. The web as a source of sharing information is more a bust than a boon. Without a university comnnection a search engine like Jastor is just a blank wall. Information costs money. And the Web is more of a giant place for selling information than a place for sharing it. Academia will never give up it's monopoly and are determined to protect it

Can anyone tell me how to get my Avatar up? Ian Hughes told me about this site. I got a few copies of the MGH cheap reprints today in the mail. The Chronicles of ACE 452 and 511. Jordanes, I have Mierow's translation but I needed Mommsen's text. I also wanted the volume that has Hydatius (Idatius) in it, So they are all from the AA section. I ment it when I said I could not read from the screen. I need to catch up on the 5th Century West. There was not much in the Library, when I was working on the 4th Century. I'm chasing the topic of an old semiar paper on Majorian I had to abandon because of lack of material back in the day. Instead I ended up working on Julian in Gaul without the help of the Notitia Dignitatum (why there are some obvious mistakes in my thesis). I once got into a "rumble " with Dr. Halsall on a Yahoo site about Ammianus's figure for the number of Alamans at Strasbourg. It's not like the Alaman site collection can be surveyed with as much confidence as the Jemdet Nasir sites in _The Uruk Contryside_. That ought to tell you something about what an opinianated old man I am. It also ought to tell you that I spent some time trying to study Assyriology at The U of C. I can't think of of what else to tell you about me by way of introduction. I know! I need a "pony" when I work in Latin and a whole herd of them when I work in Greek.

Why not Roger, Roger. Or the ever favorite Roger Dodger, Roger. Thanks for the Welcome.

Thank you , sir.

Call me Roger unless there's another Roger here. I attended a State University because how hard I worked teaching high school I could not save enough money to go anywhere else for a year so I could convince them to give me a fellowship and job. MA History LRE 1981 MA English Medieval English Literature 1991. ABD and then life intervened (or feel on me). Long story; you don't really want to hear it. My ex-university won't let me use their library with out what I consider an outrageous fee, and even then I have no privledges to speak off. I have been trying to buy LRE primary sources as time passed but thery have been on the pricey side. Secondary sources are grimly expensive and hard to find used. I am from the generation the uses books, note cards, and hand written drafts. Reading books and articles off the screen gives me a headache. So I work as I am able with a "city" library's ILL and what they can get. This introduction is what I will tell you and I am sticking to it.