From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jun 23 06:48:38 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g5NDmbw3035648 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:48:37 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Jun 23 06:48:36 2002 -0700 Received: from photon.look.ca (photon.look.ca [207.136.80.123]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g5NDmZbr032325 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:48:36 -0700 Received: from on-ham-a53-03-72.look.ca ([216.154.52.200]) by photon.look.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #10) id 17M7jH-0000m5-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:48:35 +0000 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:49:54 -0400 From: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <169369409.20020623094954@idirect.com> To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re[2]: Athena's owl In-Reply-To: <3D13395F.584F2B99@erols.com> References: <6A881116.5D587448.006D9E82@aol.com> <3D13395F.584F2B99@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Salve, On Friday, June 21, 2002, 10:34:07 AM, Ernest Moncada scripsit: > Beza1519@aol.com wrote: >> >> Hi Listers, >> >> Someone sent me an e-mail asking if I know the name of Athena's owl (if the owl even had one), and says he found "Ibid" as a possibility (that's got to be the Latin abbreviation, right?). Someone >> out there must know. Help. And no "Bubo" jokes, please. >> >> Kirk Summers >> University of Alabama > I recall this same question being asked a couple of years ago, and > among the answers it generated were two suggestions, Sophia and > Glaukos. As I recall, these were 'educated' guesses. I remember this > exchange because of a passing interest I had at the time in owls. EJM We had this discussion a couple of years ago; you can see the various suggestions at: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&safe=off&q=+site:omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu+Athena%27s+owl+name Bubo and Glaukos were suggested ... I think the continuous problem folks have with this is that they seem to assume the owl is a pet rather than an attribute. dm ================================================================ David Meadows Libertas inaestimabilis res est. ================================================================ mailto:dmeadows@idirect.com http://www.atrium-media.com ================================================================ .