From n.lowe@rhbnc.ac.uk Sun Nov 26 04:16:20 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id EAA285290 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 04:16:18 -0800 Received: from mh1.rhbnc.ac.uk (mh1.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.102.162]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id EAA05219 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 04:16:18 -0800 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 04:16:18 -0800 Received: from [134.219.202.207] (actually host ppp1-7.rhbnc.ac.uk) by mh1.rhbnc.ac.uk with SMTP (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 12:02:27 +0000 X-Sender: cc\uhlc001\n.lowe@exch1.rhbnc.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Nick Lowe Subject: Re: At Howard, 'The Iliad' Is An Odyssey Of Rebirth (washingtonpost.com) I wonder whether this is the quadrennial Homer marathon noted by Al Kriman in a post to the list in August 1999? If so, his snip of the report of the last one (from the Denver Post, September 27, 1996) bears repeating. The final line is AK's gloss. ----%<----- What possible relevance could Homer's 2,700-year-old text have for a generation raised on computer games and Beavis and Butthead? "Everyone gets snubbed at some point and seeks revenge," said John Swanson, 17, summing up the plot of "The Iliad" in one phrase.... Homer's poem is drenched in blood, and many deaths are dictated by the gods or the demands of honor. Sarah Tomicich, 17, saw a lesson in that. "As teens, we think we're invincible, but it does make you realize that everybody is going to die one day. Even so, you need to go with what you feel you should do in life, even if you suffer the consequences." The quadrennial marathon took place at Columbine High School. ----%<----- Nick Lowe n.lowe@rhbnc.ac.uk .