From helmadik@midway.uchicago.edu Tue Mar 7 09:06:27 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA16026 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:06:25 -0800 Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA31001 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:06:24 -0800 Received: from harper.uchicago.edu (root@harper.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.7]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26371 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:06:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from [128.135.183.45] (classics3.uchicago.edu [128.135.183.45]) by harper.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19765 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:06:23 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: helmadik@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:04:55 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Helma Dik Subject: Re: Divas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Keely Lake wrote: > >> Is anyone able to make more sense of this than I? My Italian is not >> beyond stumbling, so I am wondering if there is indeed something more >> than a confused journalist at heart here: >> >> Verena Dobnik in the Denver Post, Sunday Feb. 27th, in an article about >> Jessye Norman: >> "To fans, however, she is a diva in the true sense of the word's Italian >> meaning, which describes an ancient goddess praising Achilles in >>Homer's 'Iliad'." > >Must be Black Athena. > >EJTh Or more specifically the expression dia theawn (diFya --> Lat. diva)? I'm not saying this is synchronically accurate.. HD Helma Dik Department of Classics University of Chicago helmadik@midway.uchicago.edu http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classics/ .