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From: Donna Wilson <Dwilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu>
To: "'classics@u.washington.edu'" <classics@u.washington.edu>
Subject: RE: Divas
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:43:50 -0500 
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> >> 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
> 
> The basic meaning of 'diva' in Italian is simply 'goddess'. The rest here
> is journalistic fluff.
> 
> PMG
> 
Then perhaps said journalist refers to the muse:  Sing, goddess. . . .?
DFW



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