From jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Mon Mar 1 06:11:52 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA40994 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 06:11:51 -0800 Received: from cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (cerberus.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.2.162]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA22342 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 06:11:51 -0800 Received: from [134.153.128.98] (drusus.clas.mun.ca [134.153.128.98]) by cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA32298 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:41:48 -0330 (NST) X-Sender: jbutrica@pop.morgan.ucs.mun.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <01J8B6EMHZPE00OGMB@FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:57:41 +0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: James Butrica Subject: Re: tenuous claims... > Solon's state-owned brothels (which I came across once again in my >bedside reading last night), based on a comic fragment (I forget which at the >moment). > > Vince Rosivach It's a fragment of Philemon's *Adelphoe*: but, depending upon just exactly how one defines "tenuous," aren't we going to be forced to admit that just about everything we say about the ancient world has to be stated in varying shades of tenuousness? (I will nominate a "dubious fact," however: the universal belief that Aristophanes wrote his lost Thesmophoriazusae after the extant one.) It seems to me that we could save a lot of time if we listed the claims that are NOT made tenuous by conflicting sources, missing evidence, resort to logical inference, etc. JLB James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics Memorial University St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 .