From jgibson000@attbi.com Sat Mar 1 09:11:56 2003 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h21HBtA8049488 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:11:55 -0800 Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h21HBpls006334 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:11:51 -0800 Received: from attbi.com (12-247-21-60.client.attbi.com[12.247.21.60]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <2003030117115000100j7s1de>; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:11:50 +0000 Message-ID: <3E60EBA8.8FC338E@attbi.com> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:19:36 -0600 From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu CC: "James M. Pfundstein" Subject: Re: Caligula walking on the sea References: <3E60248D.DA63DF4E@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "James M. Pfundstein" wrote: > > Caligula's Bridge over part of the Bay of Naples From Baiae to > Puteoli), and his motive for making it, is in Suetonius' biography of > him, cap. 19. The text can be found on-line at the Latin Library. > > http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ > > The same story is told with more detail at Cassius Dio 59.171-11. In > the last section Caligula is described as having said that Poseidon > (or Neptune) was afraid of him and his hangers-on. I don't have the > Greek handy, but and English translation of the whole history was put > up by the indefatigable Bill Thayer at his Lacus Curtius site. > > http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/home.html > > Caligula's battle with the ocean is a little later in the same book-- > 59.25.1-3. Many many thanks! Yours, Jeffrey -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.) 1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1 Chicago, IL 60626 jgibson000@attbi.com .