From jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Sun Jun 17 09:11:12 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f5HGBB074482 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:11:11 -0700 Received: from cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (cerberus.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.2.162]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f5HGBAs10554 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:11:10 -0700 Received: from [134.153.128.98] (drusus.clas.mun.ca [134.153.128.98]) by cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA16374 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:41:08 -0230 (NDT) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:41:08 -0230 (NDT) X-Sender: jbutrica@pop.morgan.ucs.mun.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <004501c0f69a$e1056ec0$dfe787d9@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: classics@u.washington.edu From: James Butrica Subject: Re: Swords, Sandals, and Fun (I) dl wrote concerning Sign of the Cross: >In fact, this film has many other amazing sequences---the lesbian >dance of seduction ("Song of the Moon," is it called?), I believe that, having been introduced as "the wickedest woman in Rome," the dancer procedes to dance "The Naked Moon" before being thwarted by the distant sound of Christian martyrs' turgid hymns. the quasi- >naked Christian woman with the gorilla, How about the one on the spit, strategically adorned with a twining vine or two, who waits for the crocodile to come and eat her, and waits and waits and screams and screams and waits ... Best of all, though, are the leopard-women who battle dwarfs (one of them ends up being brandished at the end of a long scimitar). James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 .