From jgibson000@home.com Sun Mar 4 07:57:22 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id HAA40706 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 07:57:20 -0800 Received: from mail1.rdc1.il.home.com (mail1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.76]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA31558 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 07:57:20 -0800 Received: from home.com ([24.8.224.116]) by mail1.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010304155717.CGGD23084.mail1.rdc1.il.home.com@home.com> for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 07:57:17 -0800 Message-ID: <3AA2662F.6456CEDE@home.com> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 09:58:39 -0600 From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-AtHome0407 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics Subject: Pindar's Fragment 78 and the Panathenaea Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone tell me what evidence there is to confirm the claim that Pindar, Fragment 78, which reads Hearken, Spirit of the War Shout, Alala, daughter of War, Thou prelude of the clashing spears, Whose beasts of sacrifice are men who die the hallowed death for their fatherland. was composed for recitation at the Panathenaea? Thanks in advance. Yours, Jeffrey Gibson. -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.) 7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A Chicago, Illinois 60626 e-mail jgibson000@home.com .