From uhschmit@phil.uni-erlangen.de Sun Mar 4 05:05:41 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id FAA40914 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 05:05:40 -0800 Received: from max5.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (root@max5.rrze.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.3.50]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA30470 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 05:05:39 -0800 Received: from janus.phil.uni-erlangen.de by max5.rrze.uni-erlangen.de with ESMTP for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:05:31 +0100 Received: from JANUS/SpoolDir by janus.phil.uni-erlangen.de (Mercury 1.48); 4 Mar 01 14:05:31 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by JANUS (Mercury 1.48); 4 Mar 01 14:05:28 +0100 From: "Ulrich Schmitzer" To: classics@u.washington.edu Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:05:26 +0100 Subject: Re: Departure of the God(s) Message-Id: <3AA24BA4.1670.1034F9@localhost> X-pmrqc: 1 In-reply-to: <25b6ed25c493.25c49325b6ed@homemail.nyu.edu> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Date sent: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 17:59:56 -0500 Send reply to: classics@u.washington.edu From: Diana G Wright To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Departure of the God(s) > Apollo leaves Hektor just before his defeat; the gods leave Anthony > just before his. Are there other classical examples of this? > > DW > The latter example is more a kind of evocatio: Octavian tried to separate Antonius from his helping gods (though Octavian did his best to give the impression that the gods had left Antonius on their own). Another evocatio happened during the siege of Veii (I think it was Veii, but maybe Falerii) when Iuno was evocated and since then had a temple in Rome. U.S. PD Dr. Ulrich Schmitzer Institut fuer Alte Sprachen - Latein Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/home.html .