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Subject: Re: Justinian et al. / Lucian's _Dialogues of the Courtesans_
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> Well - let me stress this - I did NOT bring this discussion DOWN this 
path.
> This resulted from questions I asked, and replies I got to those INITIAL
> questions.  Only AFTER that - when in those responses did others bring 
up
> NON-classical points, did I respond.

OK, I accept that you were simply obeying orders.
 
> Now, even if this were not the case, however, I do not think it is 
healthy
> for the "classics" to isolate themselves from "other" things; nor other
> things to isolate themselves from the classics.  So I actually WELCOME 
these
> "connections" -- and indeed -- REASON for many of my questions goes WELL
> beyond "classics" in themselves, and relates to "classics" as they 
relate to
> today.

Very much the usual argument; had this been a game of chess, I might have 
called it "The Nuremburg Gambit" - indeed everyone seems to fall for it, 
so it is probably strategically sound.

Yours irrelevantly and somewhat irreverently

Geoffrey Gaskell


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